Few foreigners come to Switzerland to bike, preferring the well-worn roads of France and Italy. As a result, there is still plenty of room on the paths of Europe’s most bike-friendly country. In some countries “national bike paths” exist more on paper than in reality; not so in Switzerland. Switzerland is crisscrossed by 9 national cycling routes totaling over 1600 miles
Any roads with extra traffic will always have a wide bike lane making for safe cycling. Although these paths stick to the countryside, cyclists will have no problems finding small “bike hotels”, supermarkets and bike shops catering to “vélotourists”.