Cycling to Hel: Bicycle Touring Poland (English Edition)

It’s Cycling to Hel, not Cycling to Hell – Hel with one “l”, and it wasn’t hell, the cycling, that is. Where is Hel? It is at the tip of a thin, 36km-long peninsula projecting into the Baltic Sea, more accurately into the Gdansk Bay of Poland. Bicycle touring across Poland may not be one of your epic cycling trips. Cycling to Hel, Tomas Belcik didn’t have to cross the Andes, the Himalayas, or the Alps, as he did on his other adventures, but that’s not why he chose to tour Poland. It was not the challenge of the route he chose. It’s all flat, all the way to the Baltic. Cycling to Hel is a travelogue and a guide for an avid road cyclist and a touring enthusiast. Included are GPS tracks as well as en extensive photo essay of each stage. If you ever thought of cycling in Poland, the book will inspire you to go. As Tomas says, ‘Stay light to nil on preparation, and you shall discover what is worth discovering!’ All else will take care of itself.’