Shipping a bike from Holland to the UK

[srw]

[QUOTE 4787015, member: 45"]I had a tandem refused on a Dutch train.[/QUOTE]
The Belgian train conductor was extremely relaxed about ours, even when he had to climb over it several times during the journey to travel through the train.

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 4787112, member: 259"]They were taking the mickey then. Here you go:

http://www.belgianrail.be/en/travel-tickets/tickets/bike-day.aspx[/QUOTE]
Am I drunk already or is that a link about Belgium when @User was turned away from a Dutch train? I'm not sure where Grand Central is, though.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4787025, member: 45"]Maybe we should set up a CC Dutch bike sale website. We could take it in turns riding them back.[/QUOTE]
Ride over on a brompton, and back with it in the cargo area

 

[Saluki]

Ride over on a brompton, and back with it in the cargo area

You have the best ideas

 

[Dayvo]

Now that is a cracker of an idea. Mini breaks and helping out fellow CC-ers all rolled into one

I was/am going to suggest a CC Amsterdam meet-up (or somewhere in Holland or Belgium) next March to see if anyone is interested. But I'll wait until early autumn until I fish for interest.

 

[Dayvo]

Eurostar might be running to Amsterdam direct by then.

Unless the good people of Europe decide to fill in the tunnel to keep the vile British people out (as opposed to the British people who aren't vile).

I'll let the plane take the strain.

 

[Dayvo]

Train is easier with a bike though

There are fiets to hire everywhere, although it's no great feat to get around on your own two feet. Pubs and coffee shops abound. But BYO by all means.

 

[Saluki]

I was/am going to suggest a CC Amsterdam meet-up (or somewhere in Holland or Belgium) next March to see if anyone is interested. But I'll wait until early autumn until I fish for interest.

That would be fun. 10 months to polish up my Dutch then. Bedankt

 

[Dayvo]

That would be fun. 10 months to polish up my Dutch then. Bedankt

Make it 20 months and then you'll be able to speak Double Dutch!

 

[Dayvo]

Gele trui, alstublieft.

 

[Saluki]

[QUOTE 4788535, member: 259"]I speak Dutch fluently. It's about as useful as speaking Sanskrit or Pali, as most of the people you speak to in Dutch speak English as well as, or possibly even better than you. [/QUOTE]
I know but I like speaking Dutch. I'm not very good at it but a workmate and I have secret conversations, quite openly, and nobody has a clue what we are on about. Actually, neither do we some of the time