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About Me

What is the bike ride from Europe's Oil Capital all about?:

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Do you fancy a challenge or just enjoy riding your bike?

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To all you people who are concerned about environmental issues like global warming and those, who just enjoy cycling and want to travel beyond borders, this could be the adventure for you! The journey will cross Europe, starting in Aberdeen (Scotland), heading south through England, to the Netherlands via ferry, then on to Germany along the river Rhine from Hoek van Holland to Karlsruhe, taking a shortcut via Stuttgart and Munich to Regensburg to meet the river Danube and cycling along this river across Austria to the final destination - Vienna...

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I'm planning to cycle from Europe's Oil Capital Aberdeen to my hometown Vienna this summer, it's already spreading and I hope to get lots of people involved.. Everyone welcome!

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for more information:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~u11ar6/heimradln_en.htm

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to contact me:

[email protected]

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My Interests

Links for this cycle ride:

Ferry from Ipswich/ Harwich to Hoek van Holland:

www.aferry.de

www.directferries.de

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I'd like to meet:

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cyclists of course, but also people letting me stay or take a shower at their place would be nice ;)

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Basic itinerary of the ride:

Start: Saturday, 2nd June 2007 (probably)

End: Friday, 13th July 2007;

Distance: app. 2000 km in total

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The ROUTE, here you go:

Start: the 2nd of June 2007 in Aberdeen

Cycling towards Edinburgh, going on via Newcastle, York, Nottingham and Cambridge to Harwich, where we'll take a ferry overnight to Holland (Hoek van Holland).

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From Hoek van Holland we will cycle to Rotterdam.

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The next stop in The Netherlands will be Arnhem, then cycling along the Rhine, crossing the border to Germany, passing Emmerich and Duisburg/Duesseldorf.

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Further stops in Germany will be:

Köln, Bonn, Koblenz, Mainz, Mannheim, Frankfurt/Main, Karlsruhe; depending on time management, weather conditions ect. we might have to take the train occasionally;

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From Karlsruhe onwards, a shortcut per train via Stuttgart, Augsburg and Munich to Regensburg is planned.

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In Regensburg we will meet the next river - the blue Danube, which will be our route to reach Vienna. Stops along this route will be Linz, Krems, ... probably a few towns in between... and finally Vienna!

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Your hints are warmly welcome too!!/p

Music:

other links:

www.criticalmass.at

http://www.aberdeencriticalmass.tk/

htttp://risingtide.org.uk

http://globike.net/ubbthreads.php

Ecotopia this year in Portugal, bike ride to Ecotopia see:

http://gaia.org.pt/?q=forum/57

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Movies:

we are traffic

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=189314458200750949

Books:

Schwarzbuch Klimawandel

My Blog

Overview

  ·         Aberdeen  Edinburgh (136 Meilen = 217 km) 3 Tage, Start 2. Juni ·         Edinburgh  Newcastle (121 M...
Posted by biking beyond petroleum on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:26:00 PST