The nearly 1,000-mile bicycle tour begins in Berlin where the fall of the Berlin Wall started the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
he trip then travels from north to south along some of the best European cycling routes through Western Europe and what was once part of the Soviet Union.
Along the way, participants cycle through Sorbian villages to the Polish border, aid in Czechia ride through the Czech Middle Mountains and follow the banks of the Elbe River and Bohemia.
In Austria, the route takes in wooded hillsides and green meadows onto the Danube River and into Vienna. The trip is offered in two stages, with Berlin to Prague (eight days) and Prague to Budapest (11 days).
Ride & Seek is an adventure cycling company offering itineraries with lodging, gastronomy, and cultural immersion.
The Iron Curtain was a political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II, ‘constructed’ seal off itself and dependent allies from open contact with the West and other non-communist areas.
The term was first used by Winston Churchill during a speech in March 1946, when he said of the communist states that “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
The most notable and ‘notorious’ physical Iron Curtain border was the Berlin Wall which, from 1961 to 1989, was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin separating it from the rest of West Germany and East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.
Adam York at adam@sublimepub.com
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