Meike de Groot | Senior Travel Advisor

Meike de Groot | Senior Travel Advisor.

Meike knows where you should travel to next, will happily create a detailed itinerary for you and can answer all of your questions.

In my day-to-day life, I cycle everywhere I can. I deliberately made the decision not to buy a car. The Netherlands is perfectly suitable for this, and with my E-bike and the Dutch train system, I am still able to get anywhere relatively fast.

I also enjoy longer bike tours, which I usually ride with my mom. One of these rides was from Batton Rouge, Louisiana to Houston, Texas in the United States. This two-week trip was so beautiful and a true adventure you could say! There were a lot of dogs coming for our ankles as they weren’t used to cyclist. And we weren’t used to dogs coming after us. So, we bought an air horn at local supermarket which we placed in our bottle holder, this way we could easily grab it when needed. This really helped! I must say dogs in the Netherlands are far more used to cyclists and if not, kept away from the streets.

What I enjoy most about working at Holland Bike Tours is to create tours to make people happy. That’s a really good feeling when waking up in the morning. During all my cycling trips I experienced that the Netherlands is such a beautiful country with scenic and safe bike paths and everything else you need within reach. It actually makes me want to ride each tour we create myself!