your diet, eating during cycling trips

[shootingstar]

Here is the link on our cycling experience in Prague:
http://thirdwavecyclingblog.wordpres...ing-in-prague/
(I'm the blogmaster for dearie's company blog.)

Eating Prague was abit of challenge, especially if one wants to focus on trying Czech food since there is less variety of veggie dishes. Czech wine which is not commonly found in British Columbia and Ontario liquor stores, has some good varieties to try.

The problem with a bike trip, especially a long one across multiple countries, is that it is nearly impossible to buy and safely lug around local wines (which often are not sold in North America). Not worth shipping back in advance, since postage cost would exceed cost of wine. So for Germany and Czech Republic, too bad we planned our trip backwards: we should have ended our trip with those countries!

We did lots of walking too. After all, I'm abit of a museum/gallery freak.

Still, in other long, self-supported bike trips, I lost abit of weight since previous trips I did more sustained, longer cycling time on consecutive days. Such previous cycling trips were in North America (which includes Hawaii).

No I didn't have any sports bars, drinks or gels. But then I never have at home, except for the occasional Cliff or Luna-like bar on cycling trips.

If a person cooks or already eats a variety of dishes across several different cuisines that use good cooking techniques, then it might help assess unfamiliar local dishes and their "healthiness" when travelling overseas. For instance, quality gourmet baking in southern Germany is NOT too sweet. The chain bakeries in southern Germany, feature supersized, overly sweet/fattening pasteries vs. the independent bakeries. It is screamingly obvious to the informed consumer. However if a North American tourist is not attuned to fine gourmet European baking, they may not be able to make intelligent food choices in ie. southern Germany. I only know this because of years of tasting dearie's mother's German gourmet baking.

Then when we got to Czech Rep. and Denmark: no I'm sorry their cuisines really aren't not known for fine, diverse desserts. So I could ease off willingly from eating much baked goods from within those traditional cuisines. Except for Glace, a fine cake-cafe in Copenhagen.

I certainly ate more meat during the whole trip than what I normally eat for 4 weeks at home. We did really want to try local cuisine, though we had to rely on some Italian meals since we couldn't find cost-effective Danish restaurants. Copenhagen was expensive, food-wise.