wheeledwidewebb
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Holy Cross but they beat the Catholicism out of me.
Round the Baltic ride
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Paul Rochdale
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Me? Dane Court.
Umm, please don't take offence but I much prefer to ride alone. That way I can start, stop, linger, ride for hours without stopping, stop for a few days, all without having to take someone else's wishes into consideration. I have ridden with others a few times but not anymore. I rode for three months in the US alone with just an hour or two here and there with other riders. I just enjoy the solitude and the freedom of choice. No hard feelings?
Me too
Baard
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Done!
I did a trip around the Baltic sea last year with three friends. Two BMW's and two Honda's.
Our idea was to do a trip around the sea without using any ferries. With the bridges in Denmark and the bridge between Denmark and Sweden there is no need for sea transport. Our trip was around 6500km and we spent 16 days.
This is the GPS tracs from our tour:
On my web-pages you can see a lot of pics.
http://home.otc-mc.org/~197/baltic_2012/index.html
The text is in Norwegian, but Google translate is your friend?
A short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T73iJFmtv9g&feature=player_embedded
I did a trip around the Baltic sea last year with three friends. Two BMW's and two Honda's.
Our idea was to do a trip around the sea without using any ferries. With the bridges in Denmark and the bridge between Denmark and Sweden there is no need for sea transport. Our trip was around 6500km and we spent 16 days.
This is the GPS tracs from our tour:
On my web-pages you can see a lot of pics.
http://home.otc-mc.org/~197/baltic_2012/index.html
The text is in Norwegian, but Google translate is your friend?
A short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T73iJFmtv9g&feature=player_embedded
Paul Rochdale
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Baard
That is similar to the route I have in mind but hugging the western Norwegian coastline and hugging the Finnish coastline to Helsinki and Talinn. Thanks for the post.
That is similar to the route I have in mind but hugging the western Norwegian coastline and hugging the Finnish coastline to Helsinki and Talinn. Thanks for the post.
Paul Rochdale
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[https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...ais&mra=ls&via=1,2,3,4,5,6&t=m&z=5&dg=feature
I have modified my route to include Copenhagen, then to ride up the west coast to Oslo.
I have been thinking about accommodation, budget accommodation, and hostelling. I tend to think of 'Youth' hostelling and young kids but I presume the age barrier no longer exists if it ever did. Would I need to join Hostelling International or the UK-based YHA (or both)? It seems sleeping bags are not allowed and sheets (sewn together) must be used. I shall take a sleeping bag for the times when I can stay in huts. I am a bit concerned about secure parking, in the big cities.
I have modified my route to include Copenhagen, then to ride up the west coast to Oslo.
I have been thinking about accommodation, budget accommodation, and hostelling. I tend to think of 'Youth' hostelling and young kids but I presume the age barrier no longer exists if it ever did. Would I need to join Hostelling International or the UK-based YHA (or both)? It seems sleeping bags are not allowed and sheets (sewn together) must be used. I shall take a sleeping bag for the times when I can stay in huts. I am a bit concerned about secure parking, in the big cities.
woodman
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Paul,
I know what you mean about traveling alone.
I also like to please myself where and when I go to places.
I think I have had some wonderful experiences over the years that I would not have had if I had been a group.
Or I could just be a miserable sod
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I know what you mean about traveling alone.
I also like to please myself where and when I go to places.
I think I have had some wonderful experiences over the years that I would not have had if I had been a group.
Or I could just be a miserable sod
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Because I love the fjord area soooo much!
The letters here are some of my favorit places, with hairpins.
Pick any road you like in that area, just make sure you find some of my fun places!
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...fFyAA;FV-JqgMdTUV3AA&t=h&mra=ls&via=4,6,7&z=8
This is your Eagle place, I guess?
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=K...5RjEXVRIksSALIg&oq=øygardstøl&mra=ls&t=m&z=14
Or this?
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=ø...8URjFEuSQ7oNkmrw&oq=dalsnibba&mra=ls&t=m&z=11
Liv.
Hjølmodalen and Kjeåsen, in Eidford.
Eidfjord; a nice place.
If you like gravel: Hjølmodalen, a dead en road.
NOT good gravel!!
If you like a safer road, even busses goes up there; Kjeåsen, a dead en road.
There was to old ladies at Kjeåsen, then one died, and the other moved from Kjeåsen. But for some years she went back in the summer, to make vaffles and coffee for the tourists. I'm not sure if she still are there in the summer.
Eidfjord got a new bridge last summer, so there are no need to take the ferry anymore.
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=U...w2Y-RjG99QptX5DhCw&oq=kjeåsen&mra=ls&t=m&z=11
This is one of the reasons why I keep on telling tourists to forget about the rest of Scandinavia, and explore our fjords.
Liv.
Eidfjord; a nice place.
If you like gravel: Hjølmodalen, a dead en road.
NOT good gravel!!
If you like a safer road, even busses goes up there; Kjeåsen, a dead en road.
There was to old ladies at Kjeåsen, then one died, and the other moved from Kjeåsen. But for some years she went back in the summer, to make vaffles and coffee for the tourists. I'm not sure if she still are there in the summer.
Eidfjord got a new bridge last summer, so there are no need to take the ferry anymore.
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=U...w2Y-RjG99QptX5DhCw&oq=kjeåsen&mra=ls&t=m&z=11
This is one of the reasons why I keep on telling tourists to forget about the rest of Scandinavia, and explore our fjords.
Liv.
Eidfjord; a nice place.
If you like gravel: Hjølmodalen, a dead en road.
NOT good gravel!!
If you like a safer road, even busses goes up there; Kjeåsen, a dead en road.
There was to old ladies at Kjeåsen, then one died, and the other moved from Kjeåsen. But for some years she went back in the summer, to make vaffles and coffee for the tourists. I'm not sure if she still are there in the summer.
Eidfjord got a new bridge last summer, so there are no need to take the ferry anymore.
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=U...w2Y-RjG99QptX5DhCw&oq=kjeåsen&mra=ls&t=m&z=11
This is one of the reasons why I keep on telling tourists to forget about the rest of Scandinavia, and explore our fjords.
And if you like hairpins, a good view, and tarmac, a dead end road, no vaffels&coffe: Osafjellet, E on this map:
https://maps.google.no/maps?saddr=U...DbgfUXw;FdtsnAMdBKhsAA&oq=osa&mra=ls&t=m&z=10
If you want to see all our nice and fun places you have to ride here every summer!
Why is Norway that special?
Get a good topografic map.
With a landscape like ours, and people has over the years tryed to live on a small farm, as far from the next farm as possible, we got fun roads for tourists.
Finland and Denmark are flat.
Sweden have a few mountains, but there are not many roads in that area.
South in Poland you'll fin really mountains, I know. But that is far south, in the border area.
See?
Liv.
From Russia with love ITV now.
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