Planning of British Isles

This post is part of adventure British Isles *planned*

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”
— William Butler Yeats

“Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands forever I love.”
— Robert Burns

In 2017 I hit the road to my very first long distance cycle tour around the Baltic Sea and came after 98 days, 79 of them on the saddle, back home with many memorable impressions and the strong desire to go for the next cycle touring adventure … which led me on 93 day stages from Northern Germany along the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean coasts to Tarifa and Gibraltar, along the Mediterranean coast to Barcelona, through France to the Rhine river and across Germany back home in 2018. In 2019 I rode my touring bike in 62 day stages from Northern Germany through Danish Jutland, along the Norvegian coast from Kristiansand to Trondheim, jumped on the Nordland train to Bodø, cycled the Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja isles, to Tromsø, Alta and Havøysund, cruised with Hurtigruten to the North Cape island and through the Barents Sea to Kirkenes, taking the way back home through Northern Finland, Sweden and the Danish Isles back home. It’s now time to move westward and cycle the British Isles.

The above planned route may be subject to change during the tour
Expected tour length: about 72 day stages and 7,600 km (incl. 1,450 km by ferry)
Planned for: mid April – mid July 2020
Main stages (in travel direction):