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You can always hire a car, one way, at the end of the trip, back to the ferry port. Its very easy to do. This yr we walked in to Avis at 09.00 and were traveling N everything packed by 10.00 Dropped the car in Caen and cycled the last 15k to the ferry port, and luckily caught the next boat. I reall...

Have used the Natuurkampeerterrein sites and guide for the last three out of four years. We have always pre ordered the book before we left, but I am sure you can turn up at any of the sites and join if you want. When it came to payment for the book we simply sent a 20 euro note back with the receip...

The steps are at Manningtree. A real effort with a loaded bike

We found Denmark good for shops, there open the same hours as UK shops 7 days a week. Food was more expensive than Germany and in our case vegetarian food quite hard to find, only managed in health shops. For camping try and get a copy of 'Overnatning i det fri' basically camping in peoples gardens....

Its quite a nice ride from Manningtree to Harwich, and back, if you have had enough of trains

Here are our two outside Albert Hiejn's, Hoek v Holland last year.

We use Bikebuddy on both our bikes. On my Aravis though, I found I could not fit the 1ltr bottle. It either overlapped with the front mudguard or caught on the chainset, so have to use a 0.5ltr instead.

In NL recently its called spiritos and available in almost any supermaket. Look in the cleaning products.

There is a nice camp site in Velsen Zuid.
http://www.natuurkampeerterreinen.nl/nl ... nberg.html
Iirc the ferry crossing to the north is frequent. We rode from the camp site in the morning straight onto the ferry.

Have a look at Dotbike
http://www.dotbike.com/p/3362

This is the ferry I believe. I havent used it myself but saw it last week when we where in Hoek v Holland



If you are coming out of the Harwich ferry terminal its on your left.

I must admit it did worry me a bit not looking at the approaching car but I felt he'd have to be a complete nutter to have run me over ,I'll admit it does take a bit of nerve,some would say stupidity even On a lane I ride along it seems to me if I make eye contact with the driver in some cases it m...

My partner and me have talked about taking a night boat over to the Hoek v Holland and buying a couple of bikes from one of the bike shops a few hundred meters from the ferry terminal. For 400 euro's there is quite a bit of choice. Nice couple of days in Holland and a new bike to take home. http://w...

Not sure how far away they are from you, but not a massive amount of millage, Byer Cycles are a great, friendly shop to deal with.
http://www.byercycles.co.uk/index.htm

Have a look at this thread on CycleChat http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/76938-dfds-seaways-grrrrr/ Thank you for your recent email. At the moment you have to have a vehicle to travel in July and August. I am sorry if this has caused you any problems. If you have any further questions, please do not h...