Cycled from Scotland to Poland
Both of us are students from Scotland. I fixed up 2 scrap bikes and then we made it all the way to the Polish border. Wanted to go further but ran out of time so we are finishing the trip on the train.
I wrote allllllllot more here: https://feddit.uk/post/16250811
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That's awesome!
How long did it take?
We left on the 3rd of June. So about 2 months doing between 35-50 miles a day.
Witamy w Polsce!
Hell of a trip.
is it a fairy across the channel?
Tee hee it is hard to swim and hold the bike up out of the water…
we I'm a dumb filthy ignorant American so I'm too stupid to know if there's some cool new underground or above ground method of transport from Britain to Spain or whatever.
I've cycled from Paris to Ashford in southeast England and you can pay a bloke with a trailer on his van to take you through the channel tunnel.
Sorry. Your good. I’m sorry i was trying to think of the funniest way across…
Didn’t mean to be a Bother
you're good man. not bothered. we'll I'm bothered by lots of things but not you.
Unless, of course, it's a canoe bike: https://www.instagram.com/ben.kilner
It has my coat (which is black aswell) in the elastic net thingy to the top of it which makes it look bigger than it actually is. It was still quite heavy as it had allot of our food in it, made the bike handle like a cross channel ferry that is taking on water.
Started in the north West of Scotland (trying to not doxx myself too hard) went to see a friend near Edinburgh and stayed for a few days, then to York, via a town between Birmingham and London to visit my girlfriends parents (she was riding the red bike (a Specialised Hardrock)) then through London to Kent to see my parents. Then after a stay in the most run down hostel I have ever seen we crossed at Dover to Calais and then cycled up the coast to Brugge, then to Amsterdam, then to Hamburg and finally Szczecin. We had planned to go all the way to Warsaw but we have run out of time, wanted to get the train but they are all fully booked so are taking the flixbus instead.
Writing all this out makes me think about making a better post about our entire journey
Wrote some more here: https://feddit.uk/post/16250811
Please make it, my write up on EV 13 didn't attract much attention but it may help someone who will plan their trip. I think that people here like nice pictures with bikes more than text but still I and some other people like to read too.
Made a new post here: https://feddit.uk/post/16250811
When I wrote it I didn't had sorted and downsized pictures, but for my future posts I will remember to pick at least one for title.
A better post? Write a book!