Hi,
I'm already planning next summer tour and a strong candidate is UK-Scotland tour.
At the moment it will be:
London, Epping - York
York - Edinburgh
Edinburg - Inverness
Inverness - Glasgow
Glasgow - Liverpool
Liverpool - Oxford
Oxford - Epping
So, any tips along the route? Perhaps some "must see" -places, good accomodation, food, pubs, distilleries...
I'm riding with my wife so no long gravel trips...
Thank you in advance!
Back on track from the midges....
This from Alpentourer magazine might well help you:
And this:
I am a big believer in asking something to do some of the work for me. That doesn’t mean that I’ll ride the roads exactly but it will give me an idea of the sort of direction I’ll need to take and the distances involved. I put your destinations between Epping and Scotland and Scotland back to Epping into the excellent (free) Kurviger website. This gave me:
For each, I asked Kurviger to exclude motorways but to give me ‘twisty’ roads but not to give me ‘tiny’ roads.
You can play around with the settings. For example, you can ask Kurviger to give you a sort of mixture:
You could then ask a different piece of free software to give you an alternative idea. For this I’d suggest using the ViaMichelin website. I chose this website as you can zoom in, which will display the route in excellent Michelin maps in all their detail; all for free. As a very basic example, ViaMichelin offers up two alternatives for Epping to York:
Is it hard to do? No. I did it all on an iPad in bed, in just a few minutes. These few minutes included taking the screen shots, then turning on Tapatalk to create the post.
Can you break it? No. So play around, it’s free.
You have two weeks of holiday available to you. It’s all completely doable.
Have fun.
Richard
PS Use Tripadvisor and / or similar websites / apps to find chose your hotels. Why? Otherwise you’ll maybe get lists of hotels from bods, none of which might suit you as you’ll be nowhere near where they suggest at bedtime. Similarly, you - and only you - know the sort of places you like.
Distilleries to see? Google up the lists. See which one(s) you fancy, where they sit on your map and work out if you’ll have time in your day(s) to see them. Here’s an easy start:
https://www.visitscotland.com/see-do/food-drink/whisky/distilleries/
Other stuff to see and do? Go to the Scottish tourist board website. Or just Google: ‘10 best things to do in Scotland’. You could even go as far as asking for ‘The 100 best things to do.....’