Originally Posted by
valygrl
Keep the ocean on your right.
On my North Sea coastal tour I met a German woman cycling home from a season on an organic farm in southern France. She had no sense of direction or navigational skill at all and carried no maps. Her method was to ride alongside a river out to the coast in France, follow the well marked coastal bicycle path all around through France, Belgium, Netherlands and N Germany until it hits the Elbe river, then follow the Elbe cycle path till it goes past her home in Hamburg.