Cathryn
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- Marlborough, Wiltshire
So many people making exciting plans! Thought it might be fun to have one place where people share their plans (safely and without giving away too much info).
Our family trip is from Saint Malo to Bilbao in the school holidays! A few days exploring Brittany, which is new to me. A few days on Noirmoutier and then down towards La Rochelle. Then a skip down to Bordeaux and then a 100-mile day through the Landes to Biarritz for some time off! (My husband and son love a challenge and it’ll be Pog’s first century ride). Then a skip through Basque Country to finish in Bilbao and the ferry back to Portsmouth!
We are very excited!
First week of September we're flying into Bilboa then cycling over the Pyrenees to Toulous.
All booked, leaving Sunday week: Ride to Harwich for the overnight ferry to the Hook, then ride up the Dutch coast 30 miles, to stay in Noordwijk for 3 nights where my wife will join me and we’ll go see the tulip fields nearby.
Then my plan is to head north then east past Hoorn and then ride the long causeway through Ijsselmeer then head slowly back to the Hook via a couple of national parks- should be a 7 day trip. Only about 40 miles each day. Sadly though, at the moment the weather forecast that week is terrible!
Is the Afsluitdijk across the Ijsselmeer open to cyclists again? There has been a bus service across for bikes and riders in recent years.
Last time I was that way I took the ferry from Enkhuizen to Friesland. A great experience!
Edit: the dijk is closed to cyclists till 2025, but there is a bus.
Edit again: https://veerboot.info/en/
Link to ferry.
I think the causway I’m hoping to cross is a little to the south and called Markerwaardijk(?) so I’m hoping it’s ok especially as I want to see Trintelhaven half way across as it is an old radio transmitting site (interesting to dull radio geeks like me!).