Cycling

5-day, 4-night tour of TASMANIA. Departures through May 23, 2016. Highlights: Travel from Hobart to Kettering/ferry to Bruny Island/bike the countryside, stopping to sample oysters, cheese, whiskey/boutique chocolate factory, “help yourself” berry farm/walk on Fluted Cape/on Adventure Bay cruise, view sea stacks and caves/lighthouse in South Bruny National Park. Ferry to mainland, bike to Huon Channel. Land, AUD2,495 (near $1,800) ppdo. Tasmanian Expeditions (3/33 Churchill Park Dr., Invermay, Tasmania, 7248, Australia; phone, in No.

Europe is a treasure chest of great cultural monuments, but it’s also a continent filled with natural beauty, often overlooked by tourists sprinting from sight to sight or searching for the perfect souvenir. I’ve found that a day biking in the great outdoors can be just as culturally fulfilling as time spent in a great church or art gallery.

There are great bargains on transportation in London, as I learned in July 2015.

I purchased an Oyster card in a Tube station. Available from machines or cashiers, Oyster cards can be used for any public transportation in London. I paid £10 (near $15.50), and four days later at a different station I got back the £5 that I hadn’t used. Visitors can also buy Oyster cards online at https://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/london-visitor-oyster-card.

(Second of two parts)

 6-day, 5-night “easy” bike tour (averaging 31 miles a day on level terrain). Departures June 21, Aug. 2 and Sept. 6 & 13, 2016. Highlights: From Vienna, AUSTRIA, to Potzneusiedl for former residence of Batthyány nobility/ride along Leitha River/Esterházy Palace/in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA, Danubiana Meuleensteen Museum for Contemporary Art/private cruise on Danube to Budapest, HUNGARY. Land, from $5,295 per person, double occupancy (ppdo). Single supp., $600. Butterfield & Robinson (70 Bond St., 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5B 1X3, Canada; in No.

In the Dutch town of Eindhoven, 123 kilometers south of Amsterdam, cyclists may ride on a bike path patterned with glow-in-the-dark swirls inspired by one-time resident of the city Vincent van Gogh. 

Opened in November 2014 as part of a pilot project for smart highways incorporating the technology, the designs are created using gravel, coated in road-grade luminescent paint, embedded in the asphalt. The paint stores light during the day and glows at night for up to eight hours.

In Warsaw, Poland, visitors have a choice of four bike tours with Station Warsaw Tours (phone +48 513 605 518, http://stationwarsaw.com).

7-day, 6-night bike ride from Bariloche, ARGENTINA, to Puerto Varas, CHILE, Feb. 21-27, 2015. Mostly rolling hills, flat terrain; average 45 miles per day. Highlights: Lake Nahuel Huapi/at Cardenal Antonio Samoré Pass, lodge at thermal resort/cross Andes into Chile/Petrohué Falls. Land, $3,325 ppdo. Single supp., $550. Includes bike, van support. ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours (Fort Collins, CO; 800/685-4565, www.experienceplus.com).

Britain’s largest nationally protected wetland, The Broads, offers bicycling, boating and fishing on its shallow lakes and waterways.

The website www.thebroadsbybike.org.uk offers 11 printable bike routes, from five to 23 miles in length. Bikes can be rented from centers around the lakes for from £7 ($12) for two hours to £14 for all day (discounts for more bikes or child’s rental).

Contact Broads Authority (18 Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1BQ, U.K.; phone [01603] 610734, www.broads-authority.gov.uk).