Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking

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

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

The solar eclipse is on 12 August, not July. Nobody much is talking about it yet, for whatever reason.

I plan to be in Spain for it (but probably would be anyway). It's just before sundown so it could be pretty spectacular so close to the horizon. But then viewing in a city might be tricky and also there's a higher risk of being foiled by clouds. I'm guessing the best guarantee of success would be somewhere on the Meseta Central, the high interior, which is normally dry. Maybe Teruel, which is directly on the eclipse path.

I did much cycle tourism in Spain last year, and took a bunch of trains. Forget the high-speed AVE and even some of the other faster services, they don't take bikes. To be sure you will get your bike on, you need to book on the Renfe site and make sure the train says "Plaza bici disponible" (which you can then reserve for free but in practice there's always space). It's not the easiest country in Europe for bikes on trains but OK once you work out which services are possible.