Travel help to Ghent

Yorkman
Yorkman Posts: 290
edited January 2008 in Workshop
Going across for the Spring classics, and as a foot passenger on the Ferry from Hull, taking my bike with me.

Has anyone done the journey from Zeebrugge to Ghent by bike before?

If so, I assume it's straightforward and on cycle free lanes?

Also, any hotel recommendations for Ghent before I trawl the net and take pot luck?

Thanks in advance.

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  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    It's a fairly easy ride IIRC. You can easily plot a route that avoids main roads. We used to take the ferry from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge for a few days at late Spring BH and we once camped between Brugges and Ghent (though it may be signed as Gand). Actually I find the cycle tracks a bit of a pain in Flanders. You often have to ride on part of the pavement and watch out for pedestrians stepping out without warning.

    We always camped so I've no idea about hotels etc.

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster
  • AntLockyer
    AntLockyer Posts: 561
    http://www.holidaycityeurope.com/chamad ... /index.htm
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  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    From Zeebrugge, turn left out of the Ferry terminal and then right after you have crossed the canal. Re-cross it using the tilting bridge and follow the West bank of the Boudewijn canal all the way into Bruges. From there, the cycle paths to Gent are marked.

    Whatever you do, keep off the main road into Bruges, it is like a concrete bobsleigh track, only for HGV's getting used to being on the other side of the road!

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  • Jeff Jones
    Jeff Jones Posts: 1,865
    You can ride along the canal the whole way. Start on the Schipdonk kanaal (which runs parallel to the Leopoldkanaal) at Heist and keep going. There's a four way canal junction at Durmen, near Nevele, where you turn right towards Gent. It's a nice ride, I think about 60km all up.
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  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    The Marriott is really nice and is centrally located on the canal. We paid about £80 a night for a double.
  • Yorkman
    Yorkman Posts: 290
    Cheers for that, sounds straightforward enough.

    Just need to work out how to cart back 2 crates of la chouffe without overbalancing now.
  • robbarker
    robbarker Posts: 1,367
    Yorkman wrote:
    Just need to work out how to cart back 2 crates of la chouffe without overbalancing now.

    What, in your panniers or in your belly ;-)
  • Yorkman
    Yorkman Posts: 290
    robbarker wrote:
    Yorkman wrote:
    Just need to work out how to cart back 2 crates of la chouffe without overbalancing now.

    What, in your panniers or in your belly ;-)

    Have we met? :D

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