Make your way to Villa Ruimzicht Hotel in Doetinchem.  This rather grand hotel stands in a small park on the edge of town. Doetinchem offers a good choice of shops.

A varied route through the nature reserves Montferland and Ooijpolder, which partly leads through Germany. In Zeddam you will pass the Grafelijke Torenmolen, the oldest working windmill in the Netherlands. Through the forests and grain fields of the Montferland and past Bergh Castle you cycle unnoticed into Germany. From Elten you are heading for the Rhine, a ferry will take you to Millingen aan de Rijn and the Ooijpolder. The moraine of Nijmegen is getting closer and closer over dikes through beautiful floodplains and villages. The hotel is located opposite the center of Nijmegen in Lent on the other side of the river Waal.

Enthusiasts can opt for a longer route of 61 km. This route goes over the Rhine bridge at Emmerich (longest suspension bridge in Germany), along the German Old Rhine (with Germany's historic, oldest steel railway bridge and the former Schenkenschanz fortress) to Millingen, after which you follow the standard route through the Ooijpolder to Lent.

Today you can choose from 2 wonderful round trips of 48 km (which can also be combined into one trip of 57 km), which also takes you through the center of Nijmegen. The south-westerly tour goes through the Land van Maas en Waal, straight through the Overasselt and Hatertsevennen nature park with the St. Walrick 'fever' tree for healing and back through the woods below Nijmegen.

The southeastern route is a beautiful but hilly ride through the Rijk van Nijmegen along the Mookerheide, the South Limburg-like Zevendal. A beautiful winding path through Germany takes you to Groesbeek, where the locally well known Zevenheuvelenweg ('seven hill road') to Berg en Dal awaits you. Finally, a fast descent takes you close to the thickest Dutch tree (take a short stroll) and the Ooijpolder. Impressive views of the push moraine accompany you the last bit back to Nijmegen.

Today the woods of the Veluwe will be your guide. You will cycle past the city of Arnhem and the lovely village Eerbeek. Spoilt for choice of things to do you will have to pick and choose. What will it be? The famous Burgers Zoo or the Netherlands Open Air Museum? The Airborne Museum about the 1944 Battle of Arnhem or Rosendael Castle in Rozendaal? The woods and heath of the Veluwe are truly a sight to behold when in August the heath blooms. Have a pleasant evening walking through downtown Zutphen’s curvy narrow cobbled streets looking up at the many ancient and beautiful houses. 

You can shorten your route on a few places to a route between 50 km and 56 km. 

Today you can choose from multiple routes. First you follow the right bank of the IJssel to Gorssel. You take the ferry there and you arrive in a beautiful floodplain area. A café and agricultural museum De Kribbe are nearby. You can continue via the left bank of the IJssel, with Slot Nijenbeek en route, back to Zutphen. Enthusiasts also cycle to the old, Hanseatic city of Deventer in Overijssel or the small town of Bronkhorst. They return to Zutphen via a beautiful bicycle loop.

This is a trip through pastoral countryside, cropfields, pasture and leafy country estates. The village of Almen is home to a small printing press museum. Smedekinck Museum in the pretty village of Zelham is housed in an ancient farmhouse and portrays daily village life through the centuries. Lovely Vorden Castle and gardens are well worth a visit. 

After eating your fill at the breakfast buffet, it’s time to go home.