As I promised our Way of Saint James did not end in Santiago continiously the blog gets updated to let you read how we will keep the “Less-is-more-Tour” alive. We continue – as the project is even continuing in 2026 and further on. Climate change doesn’t stop – so we can’t stop either! We promised not to take an airplane back from Santiago as most of the pilgrims probably do once they’ve arrived at this destination. We continued our trip to show you can travel through ten countries within Europe by bike without stepping on an aircraft. But to give you some teasers what will be next: In October 2026…

Everything was packed to saddle our metal horses for a last time. Utrecht Centraal station offers one highlight for bikers, that I still wanted to capture on camera. It’s the world largest bike parking and was completed in 2019, offering double-decker bike racks for 12.500 bikes on three levels. Long stretched ramps connect the different levels of parking decks with a gentle slope. One giant loop stretches from north to south, being the interlace between the entrances and exits. The cost of this project was around  € 30 million and worth every single Euro. It’s a life changer for so many commuters to have a safe place for their bikes,…

It was a Sunday and the AFFR would have continued for another day, but we had to do our last leg towards Utrecht today. As we had had enough of city traffic during the last few days, we chose a route through the green fields and along canals to breathe in the nature again that is surrounding the city of Rotterdam. It’s astonishing how close urban sprawl contrasts with wildlife closeby. Especially being in the delta of the river Rhine, with all its water arms reaching out into the landscape, our “Less-is-more-Tour” was closing the circle after being up at the source of the river Rhine at the Oberalp Pass…

Another day at the AFFR started with the discovery of the architect Rudolf Schindler, who was portrayed by the Californian director Valentina B. Ganeva. She followed the history of this Austrian architect, who had been devotedly working for Frank Lloyd Wright, but was never recognized for his contribution to the masterpieces of his boss. In the time of the Case Study Houses names like Neutra were always the ones that managed to be in the front line. But for famous architects, who featured in this film like Frank O. Gehry, Tom Mayne, Steven Holl, Wolf Prix and others, Schindler’s works were an example for their own architectural language. In the…

For the morning we had an invitation to the AFFR Forum, where all the filmmakers and representatives from festivals  could participate in a workshop to get to know each other and share visions. At first we were supposed to get to know each other and were put together in teams of two or three participants. We had a half hour to get know the other person and his project, and then had to present them instead of presenting ourselves and our project. This was quite interesting, because doing such an “elevator pitch” for someone else was quite challenging as it required concentration and the time to listen. The effect was…

Maybe the idea of being done with biking soon, and the prospect of spending the whole day sitting in cinemas at the AFFR, were too much of a contrast for us. Another reason for making a further bike tour was the fact that I calculated the distance to our last destination Utrecht, where I wanted to reach 5.000km. So we needed some more kilometres in order to reach that goal. Robert picked us a bucket list destination, which was a must to be seen. Dordrecht – it was the oldest city in Holland, first mentioned in the 12th century, but not the oldest in the Netherlands. The oldest city in…

Today we had the honour to do the presentation of our climate project at the “Koninklijke Roei- en Zeil-Vereeniging “De Maas”, the royal rowing and sailing association of Rotterdam, which was founded in 1851 and is one of the oldest water sport clubs. It wasn’t affected by the bombing of the German Nazi regime, but in 1942 the president and four more members were imprisoned and murdered, when the building was turned into a “Wehrmachtsheim”. So I was aware of this location being charged with history, and therefore I was respectfully following the invitation to this place where the Rotary Club Rotterdam holds their meetings. This year the Rotary Club…

Looking out of the window from our room of the Röderhuis an autumnal scenery mirrored in the harbour of Goedereede. A rich breakfast was awaiting us in the dining room with an open kitchen. The owner was an ancestor of the German artist Röder and the house felt like atelier and art gallery. The name of the town Goedereede means originally “good roadstead”, a safe anchorage that dates back to the Roman times, when they had already built a castell and vicus at this place. The name of the former island Goeree is also derived from the name of the town. It is now connected with the former island Voorne…

As you couldn’t get around these huge Newfoundlanders of Pim, we had to take at least a selfie together with them before leaving after breakfast. From Maldegem the border with the Netherlands is not really far, and it was very amusing that we were not only reaching the bikers paradise, but the first building directly at the border was even a bike shop. The only disappointing thing was they didn’t have a rear mirror as replacement for Robert’s broken one. During my speeches about climate change and the advantage of investing in a good bike infrastructure the Netherlands were once criticised as an unfair example, because it’s only flat and…

After spending the night in the hotel “Les Gens de Mer”, where we could park our bikes in one of the meeting rooms, we wanted to have a look at the Quai de la Cunette to see a bit of the harbour of Dunkerque, but it was no fun to bike against the wind that was so strong as it was even magnified by the high facades built along the Quai. At the beach of Dunkerque, called “Plage de Malo-les-Bains” which sounded to me like the French word for bathing trunks = maillot de bain, we found a tourist office. Being back on the continent and Robert not having the…