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Before my first every cycle tour in 2004, somebody on this forum recommended these: https://www.fasty.se/en/ They ended up being the most useful piece of equipment for the entire 3 week tour and aside from GPS, they still continue to be. Rock solid and 100% reliable. Once tied, I've never seen them ...

Great comfortable solid helmets!

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For me it would be the Via de la Plata camino from Seville to Santiago . I would start in Cadiz and cycle the Via Augusta ( i think thats its name )up to Seville and join the Via de la Plata . I have cycled from Seville 3 times and loved every moment ....good weather....cheap food....cheap hostels ...

May I suggest the Czech Republic. Lovely wide and mostly flat back roads . You could start off in Prague and head south to Bohemia. I did this a few years ago and it ended up being a very relaxing holiday. (You can easily take a train out of Prague if you want to avoid the extensive cobblestones in ...

OP here, thanks for the update Bohrsatom.

Nice to know that two wheels (human powered) are good again with this operator.

Could take five hours but not if you have to stop hundreds of times to check the route on your smart phone, sometimes only a few feet between changes of direction and easily missed. Not easy on a bright sunny day, even worse on a dark wet and windy night, poor sod! So we briefed him on maps and rou...

One negative thing I would say about is if you sit outside in the morning or evening wear long trousers and sleeves and buy some Deet. There were a fair few mosquitos. In Venice itself it was OK as surrounded by salt water.Also when we were there it was 35 degrees plus which I like and have no conc...

Lambada Country by Giles Whitell.

A cycle in newly opened up Eastern Europe. A lovely engaging read.

One thing about Italy it's much of it is closed on a Sunday. OTOH, much of France can be closed any day of the week :? . I recollect riding, late morning, parched, into a village near Carcassonne, which google assured me had four bars where we might get a drink. One was shut down and for sale, one ...

Edit: if you want somewhere cheap to stay in Venice we stayed at Camping Rialto in Mestre. It was about 35 Euros a night in a 'chalet'. These are sheds with two single beds in, the sheds are packed quite tightly together. There was enough room for us and two bikes,just. This gave somewhere semi sec...

On the route I am most familiar with,Plymouth-Roscoff, the boarding procedure for cyclists is exactly the same as that for motor cyclists who do not seem to pose 'significant operational hurdles'. Suggest lovers of France and Brittany Ferries begin to lobby the company! No doubt Cycling UK will be ...

there are lovely small tours, starting from pretty much every port along the French channel coast. I've done such from (starting from west, going east) Roscoff, St Malo, Cherbourg, Ouistreham and Le Havre... and that in itself is unnecessary considering the nature of countryside adjacent to the nor...

1982john wrote:looks like Irish Ferries are applying the same demented logic

Do you have a source?

I've been to Girona a few times. No shortage of accommodation options. If you want to spoil yourself, there is the swish Hotel Historic in the centre which has a cycling theme to it. A lot of old cycling jerseys up on the wall and of course is cycle friendly. As HarryD has stated, there is some grea...

mjr wrote:If they do, it seems like scapegoating.

My thoughts exactly!

I know they're a business but it really is a shame if this crisis is used to usher in a cyclist ban.