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ossie wrote:As stated there is no ferry from Santander to Poole.

The coastal route you refer to is Eurovelo 1, however to reach it from Cherbourg you will have a 200 mile road ride down to Nantes.

Eurovelo 1 starts at Roscoff so you could take the Plymouth - roscoff ferry!

I am sure this topic must have been covered in the past but I know regulations regularly change. I have recently been diagnosed with kidney disease and I must not travel by plane or coach due to the DVT risk from the drugs I am on. I desperately want to do the rhine from source to sea (eurovelo 15) ...

Thank you for sharing this great report, hopefully i will be able to offer some updates on the route when i do it in June.

Thank you, I have managed to convert them to GPX files on gpsies and they seem to be ok. I just hope they work when i am out there

I have a garmin 810 touring and I have downloaded the eurovelo 1 route files from velodysey.com. The files I downloaded are .xml files I can uses gypsies.com to convert the files but i don't know which files are best should i use gpx track or gpx waypoint or tcx etc etc

Thank you

David

What about one of the eurovelo routes?

I am doing it a slightly different way, I am taking the bike express to Bayonne and then cycling around 20 miles to Hendaye. From Hendaye I will be taking the eurovelo 1 all the way to Roscoff and the taking the Roscoff - Plymouth ferry which is quite cheap.

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