tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20168582403491517382024-03-05T03:16:40.167-08:00France - Scotland by Bikeradlfahrerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17201757752290615004noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2016858240349151738.post-35054808119740096422017-03-21T09:09:00.001-07:002019-10-02T07:18:34.575-07:00FES2014<b>France - England - Scotland - Netherlands</b><br />
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Paris, city of love, but this love seems to manifest itself today in security locks, is there still room for revolution, longing, seduction and romance associated with this city :).<br />
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Since I visited Paris on previous holidays, (<a href="http://radlfahrer.blogspot.com/2010/09/von-munchen-nach-paris.html">Von München nach Paris 2010</a>, <a href="http://radlfahrer.blogspot.de/2013/05/frankreich2013.html">Frankreich im Mai 2013</a>) I leave the city quite quickly in a westerly direction.<br />
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On track of the 120 years old cycling event <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%80%93Brest%E2%80%93Paris">Paris-Brest(-Paris)</a> I cycle colorful through France <br />
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to Roscoff. This route is pleasant to cycle, but does not offer too many tourist attractions. However I already visited places further north in 2011 on another <a href="http://radlfahrer.blogspot.com/2011/01/tour-de-france-2011.html">Tour de France</a> and wanted to use the first days simply to "get started". Lovely landscape, good food, no stress...<br />
On the evening of April 13th I was in Roscoff and the next morning I take the ferry to Plymouth on the south coast of England.<br />
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my equipment<br />
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Tent, stove, and another backpack, which hides in the bag across the carrier, for the hikes on the way.<br />
Leaving Plymouth I cycled through the hilly landscape of <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor">Dartmoor</a>. <br />
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Some farms open the meadows for tents, those were my favourite camping spots. <br />
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Exeter and the Blackdown Hills with best weather possible and in full bloom.<br />
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In Glastonbury were too many tourists in front of the abbey, so I left King Arthur, Avalon, the sheep and neodruidism behind me.<br />
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Oxford, city of dreaming spires. <br />
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Through the heart of England, Cotswolds, in Miss Marple's footsteps; many parked cars disturbed the cityscape in Chipping Campden to some extent.<br />
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In Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of the Bard of Avon is the main attraction for tourists. The weather was a bit hazy that day.<br />
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Easter. and I wasn't the only one looking forward to the Peak District, the A515 behind Burton-on-Trent to Ashbourne was horrible busy that day. <br />
In England I saw significantly more old-timer cars driving around than here in Germany.<br />
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I passed by big cities like Manchester to avoid the city traffic and visited the Yorkshire Dales after the Peak District.<br />
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This year, 2014, the Tour de France in England will start there.<br />
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The weather in England continued to be fantastic, with some rain at night now and then, but during the day I didn't get wet once in April.<br />
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From the Yorkshire Dales I passed seamlessly into the Lake District, which I didn't have for myself on Easter Sunday. Via Carlisle towards Galloway<br />
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and between Ayr and Ardrossan I tried a signposted cycle path, which lead me all over the area for hours. In the evening by ferry to the island of Arran, which offers almost everything that distinguishes Scotland, including a whisky distillery in Lochranza.<br />
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The next day by ferry to Claonaig and on Kintyre north to Oban.<br />
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The weather got a bit cloudy when I walked up Ben Nevis during the day, but it is cloudy for most of the year anyway. From 1100m on a continuous snow field began and the visibility dropped to 20m. On top from a small windbreak, I took a snapshot with my mobile phone. In my shorts and cycling shoes I found myself, compared to many other mountaineers equipped with gaiters, crampons and ice axe, somewhat "underdressed".<br />
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On the "Road to the Isles" along a nice railway line and <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenfinnan">Glenfinnan Monument</a> and various <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenfinnan-Viadukt">Viaducts</a> to Mallaig. From there a ferry to the Isle of Skye.<br />
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The next day a tour around the peninsula Skye, which I left in the evening over the Skyebridge at the Kyle of Lochalsh to Eilean Donan Castle.<br />
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Right opposite the campground there was a small bakery and the fresh bread in the early morning brought me to Ullapool, because tea rooms or other shopping facilities were scarce on my route there.<br />
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Actually I hadn't even planned the north coast in my trip, but after meeting some end-to-end cyclists (Land's End to John O'Groats) and an 80 year old who hiked this route on foot with a little wagon he pulled behind him (and was now on his way back) I also wanted to reach at least the north coast of Scotland and drove from Ullapool to Durness via the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylesku">Kylesku Bridge</a>.<br />
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Durness has several award-winning beaches and a John Lennon monument, because he spent some vacations here in his youth. <br />
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Shortly before Tongue a spoke in the front wheel broke, I had some spare parts with me and on such a sunny day the screwing on the wheel makes isn't such a hassle. There wasn't much traffic on the A836 southbound. <br />
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My supply of good weather was apparently exhausted when I visited Glen Affric, Drumnadrochit, Urquhart Castle and Loch Ness during the day, it was mostly cloudy and sometimes foggy. The way via Inverness, the <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlacht_bei_Culloden">Battlefield of Culloden</a>, Cawdor Castle and to the south into the Cairngorms was rainy or even snow later.<br />
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Via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral_Castle">Balmoral</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braemar_Castle">Braemar</a> up to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairnwell_Pass">Devil's elbow</a> the highest pass in Scotland, the second highest, Lecht, I cycled too. Pitlochry, and the Lochs Tay, Katrine and Lomond were on their way to Drymen. The campground there is close to the <a href="http://www.west-highland-way.co.uk/theroute.asp">West Highland Way</a> and there were surprisingly many hikers with their tents on that small farm.<br />
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I mended a flat tire the next day in Stirling when I noticed that the sidewall of my tire was chafed up and during mounting there was bubonic plague. It was Sunday and it was raining and as I was cycling past the station in Stirling I decided to try my luck in Edinburgh and got on the train (8 pounds incl bike for about 60km). In Edinburgh I found bike shops that were open on Sundays. I happily left the shop with a spare coat to cycle to a campground just outside the city and change my coat there in peace. But 50m later: a bang and the old tire had burst open at the side. I had a spare hose with me.<br />
In the afternoon I went to the Arthurs seat, a volcanic cone in the middle of the city and the next morning I cycled to Stirling in the morning, because I wanted to see the Firth of Forth bridge anyway...<br />
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Next morning I spent in Edinburgh's Botanical Garden<br />
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Along some historic railway lines and rivers you can cross the city quite quickly in Edinburgh. <br />
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When the weather was bad, I hid myself in the museum.<br />
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A bit south of Edinburgh I visited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel">Rosslyn Chapel</a> and the home of <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28Schaf%29">Schaf Dolly</a>, stayed one last time directly at the Scottish border in Kielder and cycled along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall">Hadrians Wall</a> to Newcastle upon Tyne, where I could change my ferry ticket to todays sailing for a small fee.<br />
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The Netherlands were a different world for cyclists, everywhere separated lanes for cars and bicycles and then this incredibly flatness across the whole country. France, England and Scotland had some more hills to offer.<br />
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I spent the last day in the city of Amsterdam and boarded the night train from Amsterdam to Munich. But I hid most of the time in the museum, because only in the evening the rain stopped and I could take some pictures of Amsterdam after 5 pm.<br />
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