Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking

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Where are you planning to go this year? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/bicycle_touring@lemmy.world

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Bit of conversational question. I have 2 plans and still don't know which one I will choose, maybe you will help me decide.

One is to ride to Spain for solar eclipse, that is 12.7. and ride home. So probably through Austria, northern Italy, France and along Mediterranean coast to Spain.

Other is through Poland, Baltic's towards Finland. I still don't know what next if it would be possible to go to Sweden and Norway and then cross to Denmark...

I will have about 2 months for that so I will probably use some trains and stuff to shortcut it here and there.

So what are your plans, where would you want to go this year?

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have never seen a total solar eclipse before it’s pretty wild. I got to see one two years ago.

That’d be my vote.

The other trip sounds like something that could be done at any time if there’s no special event going on you are trying to do or see.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know how it's said "Visit Russia before Russia visits you". That is my main concern in that area.

But the problem in Spain at that time is the weather, it is just too damn hot for me to go there in summer.

So even though I haven't seen full solar eclipse yet I am more inclined to go north.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The total eclipse only passes over Iceland and Spain. And Iceland can be cloudy.