Bigtallfatbloke
New Member
...I'm a beginner...just the one and off on a 'real' tour in a month or so...but already i am thinking about where to go next...so....where is the best place you ever toured and why?
Your best tour and why
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vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Bigtallfatbloke said:
I don't have a favourite tour. They have all had their own appeals, challenges and memorable events.
The most memorable tour was my very first, a C2C.
Rhythm Thief
Veteran
I enjoyed doing the Western Front battlefields a few years ago. Got the Euro Bike Express coach to Calais and then pedalled down and across to Arras on the Somme, then all the way up the old frontline to Ypres. Then back to Calais to get the bus home.
But like Vernon says, they're all good.
But like Vernon says, they're all good.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Did Sweden to Gibraltar a few years ago.
Now planning (mentally) a bigger trip in two years time.
Now planning (mentally) a bigger trip in two years time.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Oh, why?
My first major trip - six weeks and 4,000+ km, and just four weeks after breaking my collarbone.
The best bit was the feeling of freedom, which I find on nearly all my rides - even a 25 minute commute!
My first major trip - six weeks and 4,000+ km, and just four weeks after breaking my collarbone.
The best bit was the feeling of freedom, which I find on nearly all my rides - even a 25 minute commute!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Brains said:
I did that last year. I got off at Calais and got on at Montpellier.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
jags said:
I don't know! I always seem to recover quickly from (the few) injuries I've had.
The break was more or less in the middle of the left collarbone; I'm large boned, so I don't know if that helps with the re-knitting of the bones!
goo_stewart
New Member
My first tour, Cambodia. The sense of freedom, the warmest welcome by the locals and the challenge. I toured just about when UNTAC left and the country was getting on it's feet again. I love all my tours, but the first really stands out in my mind. I can smell the smells, see the people and feel the ride still to this day, 10 years later.
Creamcrackered
Über Member
- Location
- 2,000' above Gloucestershire
Tajikistan's Pamir Highway - amazing mountain scenery, "way out there" feel, incredibly friendly people, very cheap and much less scarey than I had anticipated.
xilios
Veteran
- Location
- Maastricht, NL
Bigtallfatbloke said:
The best tour I've done was the latest one.
Why? Because I saw and experianced something new.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
goo_stewart said:
goo!
Interesting travels! I have spent quite a lot of time in Cambodia over the last two winters, but I must admit I wouldn't fancy cycling there! The roads were atrocious and the driving/traffic scary. But the people were amazingly friendly and hospitable; maybe one day . . . !
Corsica in 2001 with my younger brother. Superb cycling and stunning scenery. My brother had flown over from NZ; we cycled in the UK, Ireland, the south of France and finally Corsica. He had neurofibromatosis and that tour was pretty much the last time he rode a bike. He sadly died a few years ago, making those weeks I spent with him very very special to me. Corsica's stunning though, sentimental reasons or no, and I plan to return later in the year.
