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Yes it's very easy to wild camp in northern France, just done so for a week a few days ago, and have done so at other times. I have wild camped in Normandy,Brittany,Calais direction,Picardy region [which just about covers every section of the north of France] Loads of trees, forests, cycle paths, ev...

I will say well done, as no one has added any comment yet. Your 11 tips i can relate to, armadillo tyres may be going over the top, you can do the route on much cheaper ones and still have no real issues, but for piece of mind buying good ones does help. Weather wise i got by on extremes, nice sub z...

Given how their prices have gone up in the last few years, I can say that the horror I felt until I got the joke was not a surprise. Either P Liptrot or Brooks have guessed wrong about the price elasticity ofr these saddles. I have a Brooks saddle, which is the best I've ever had, but it'll be my l...

Do you recognise this area at all? http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj86/port_soft/john%20ogroats%20to%20lands%20end/DSCN4270.jpg The signpost is next to a bridge, if i remember rightly there is a massive climb a bit after that signpost, i couldn't believe the angle of the climb. No more than hal...

Well done.
What did you make of the journey south from Glasgow towards England?See many potholes?
I just got a single puncture on my trip, you were unlucky with 6,
i got mine about 800 miles into the journey.

Hi, It is fairly hilly but worth it! If you just stick to small roads you can't go wrong really. I Do you recognise this area at all? http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj86/port_soft/john%20ogroats%20to%20lands%20end/DSCN4270.jpg The signpost is next to a bridge, if i remember rightly there is a m...

I just went helmsdale, stay on A9, arrive in Inverness.
The road gets busy in the last 15 to 20 miles towards Inverness, compared to A roads in England it wasn't bad at all i felt.
I was travelling during rush hour as i neared Inverness.

Best of luck, that is very impressive. I done 1200 miles on my trip but took 23 days to do it, very much a slow coach compared to your plans. I reckon you'll get plenty of donations on the route if you let people know what you are doing, folk will be bowled over with those statistics. People gave me...

ok peoples, status update: I have now planned my route as far down as Shrewsbury! - nearly there. I also did just over 60 miles on the bike on Sunday (fully loaded), out and back in 5 hours total - yay. struggling to put together the best route from Shrewsbury to Monmouth. I'm looking for a route t...

Latest news http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018839/YouTube-justice-Driver-John-Nicholls-caught-road-rage-attack-posted-online.html?ito=feeds-newsxml £400 fine and £100 compensation to the cyclist.... Jan Thanks for the update on the story. £100 compensation is nothing really. That is a ver...

In Europe or further away? Having travelled europe in November there are many cold places at that time of year, not so many hot. Spain,Portugal,Greece,Turkey,Sicilly, Sardinia [not sure of] Corsica [not sure] Those are the only ones i can think of that may be close to those temperatures, and some of...

Up that way you will find countryside in abundance, finding a camping spot should be quite easy.The same stands for most of Scotland except the built up cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scotland is completely different to England when it comes to wild camping. In Scotland we have more green are...

Thanks for all the info again. I get to Vienna on the morning of the 28th (overnight train from Milan via Innsbruck, - as the direct train doesn't allow bikes) planning to go straight to Bratislava for a cheap beer or two. Getting back tor Grenoble (where I am based) by train is going to be interes...

...so, if you have browser-equipped device with you, you can always buy from the .uk site - even in the ferry terminal, in Caen! Yes, exactly, that is what the Caen ticket sales man said to me at the port, he said go back to the internet cafe 14 miles away or whatever and book there. He said you we...

I head down to the port, £55 ticket please, sorry that is a Uk price only and only available if you booked it on the net, our price for French travellers is 89 euros.French travellers, or anyone leaving from Caen,always pay more i was told. I had the same on the Ijmuiden-Newcastle link a month ago....