we are, we are doing the Castles and Coast South at the beginning of May – sustrans route so on side roads and gravel tracks. We are camping so lucky MrPP gets to pull the trailer up the climbs. MrPP has some riding planned when we are in the US in September but that is not really touring.
Oh yes, train to Oban – ferry to Barra or Sth Uist, ride up to Tarbert then ferry back to Skye, cycle down and cross to Mallaig then back down to Oban. Or maybe carry on up to Stornaway and ferry back to Ullapool. Haven’t decided yet. Anyways, train back from wherever I get to.
It’ll be in May, hopefully after the ice has thawed a little but before the midges appear. Can’t wait.
Oh, doing Hadrains Wall NCN72 with Mrs Pickers as well later in the year.
starting my touring year a week on friday with a 3 day jaunt around the north yorkshire moors.
at the end of april me and the good lady are having 4 days in belgium on the bikes
and then i have a week planned touring the distillaries in september.
gonna be a good year hopefully……. 😀
Camino de Santiago (the Camino Frances version) from 27th of this month, dry run of Coast’n’Castles mid May ahead of helping a group do it in September.
Hoping the weather in Spain decides what it’s doing, it’s been sub zero and snowing ’til recently! 😯
Me and my mate are doing the Coast to Castles Newcastle to Edinburgh route over 3 days during the Easter break. 2 nights camping then a hotel in Edinburgh. I need to get a few miles under my belt before then!
4 days in belgium on the bikes
We did this last year and it was great! Belgian beers, super-wide bike lanes, beautiful cities (Bruges, Ghent), the tour of flanders museum, visiting a few war cemeteries, shaking hands with Eddie Mercx at the Menin Gate…lovely. 🙂 Enjoy yourselves!
Stuff. There are big areas of Scotland I need to visit, I’m still after a decent route to see some nice bits of England. And I have a Celtic Capitals plan.
Hopefully 2 or 3 weeks somewhere around the Basques region of France in May, depending on elderly relatives staying well.
Not sure yet whether there are many camp sites open at that time of year down there though.
A jaunt to France hopefully with Leffeboy, a bit of mixed on and off road multi day touring in Scotland, and some island hopping with Ton in September. Nt really a tour but I fancy a ride out to the Loch Ossian youth hostel too.
Back to Denmark for Mrs Mugsy, Etienne (5) Pia (will be 3) and myself in the summer for 3 weeks. Planning on going up northland and getting there by train from home near Grenoble (riding to the train station I hope). Might be our last tour with a trailer.
Last year we island hopped from the German border over to Copenhagen and back. Camping all the way sometimes in the free nature (nature not naturist!) campsites. Great times, hoping and planning for more.
Actually if anyone has done the Coasts and Castles route do they recommend doing the coastal route in its entirety or the alternative route taking in Innerleithen and on up to Edinburgh?
I have a half-baked notion of doing a loop over a long weekend, starting at one English Channel port accessible through Portsmouth, and coming back via another. However, don’t want to do a pointless tour of some scabby industrialised and desolate coastline.
Do they have Sustrans (SustFrans?!) equivalent routes?
As I say, the notion is very much at the half-baked stage at the moment. Would be glad to hear people’s experiences.
Going to do a few days over the South Downs in the summer, start on the SDW in Winchester and finish on the SDW in Eastbourne, but mix up a fair bit of road in between with the SDW and take in some of the villages along the way.
Just spent the weekend test fitting new luggage!
Train to Glasgow on the 23rd. Nine days, Up through Tarbet around a bit,Glen Coe for two days, Great Glen to Inverness and then drunk on the train back to merry Lincolnshire
Yipppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(Snow last Easter!!!!!)
Lucky it’s never windy in Scotland.
Me thinks a cross wind could be fun?
P.S.
It’s a tent for me – non of that tarp style accommadation
And I’m not going nowhere without me Snowpeak Titanium French Press
headfirst – Member
Me and my mate are doing the Coast to Castles Newcastle to Edinburgh route over 3 days during the Easter break. 2 nights camping then a hotel in Edinburgh. I need to get a few miles under my belt before then!
Yep me too, kind of, same weekend although we are actually doing Berwick-Edinburgh via Innerleithen then back along the coastal route
May see you en route, staying Clovenfords on the Friday night, Edinburgh hostel on the Saturday
clareymorris – Member
Actually if anyone has done the Coasts and Castles route do they recommend doing the coastal route in its entirety or the alternative route taking in Innerleithen and on up to Edinburgh?
Will let you know, although I suspect the alternative to be better
I did Berwick – Dunbar last year and Berwick – Edinburgh the year before. In 2012 I followed the coast almost all the way. In 2011 I cut up through Duns and the B6355 to Gifford and Pencaitland. That’s a lovely route.
I should have GPX tracks of both if anyone is interested.