European Vacation, Summer 2026

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In May and June 2026, Lori and I explored Europe, visiting Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich, Salzburg, and then riding our bikes south through Slovenia to Croatia before finishing up with in Italy at Lucca, Floence, and Rome. We'll take some trains, some boats, and ride some bikes, and we'll bring you along in the below trip report.

Lori's packing montage!

We had some epic travel days going to and from the other side of the planet, and spent about 28 hours flying and in airports between Portland, Seattle, Reykjavik, and finaly Copenhagen on the way out. We still managed quite a long travel day on the way home too, even though that was only Rome, Seattle, and Portland.

Sights from an almost-empty Icelandic airport

Half of what made the travel so hard was that we took our bikes, and had to lug bike boxes through airports and across the sidewalks of Rome, and we also had hours of fun getting the bikes packed on our own in Rome. But, spoiler alert: everything with the bikes worked out fine!

The trip was pretty fun and I tried to write every day we biked between cities, and then had some longer write-ups for the places we hung out for a few days.

First while: staying in Copenhagen
Next while: staying near Amsterdam
Next while: staying in Salzburg
Salzburg to Werfen
Werfen to Bad Gastein
Goodbye Bad Gastein, Hello Mallnitz
Mallnitz down to Villach
Goodbye Austria - Villach to Tarvisio, Italy
Tarvisio, Italy to Bovec, Slovenia
Bovec to Kanal (and train to Kranj)
Kranj to Logarska Dolina
Logarska Dolina to Mozirje
Mozirje to Paska Vas to train to Kocevje to Osilnica
Into Croatia
Novi Vinodolski into Senj
Senj into Novalja
Novalja into Zadar
Zadar into Sebenik
Sebenik into Split
Exploring Split
Getting to and exploring Lucca

You can read about my other trips on the main page of this site