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Holiday logistics sanity checks
Jan. 27th, 2008 12:29 amI know I have a number of Scandinavian readers and a number of readers with reasonable experience in eastern Europe, so I'll ask here.
There are two things I'd like to do this year: a few hundred miles of cycle touring somewhere around Denmark-ish, and some standard city-hopping-by-train backpacking in Ukraine: Lviv, Kiev, either Yalta or Odessa, Kamyanets-Podilsky if I can figure out how to get there.
I was thinking Denmark at Easter and Ukraine in the summer, but the more I look the more it seems sensible to do them the other way round; Ukraine in August is clearly very hot and the south coast covered from Odessa to Mariupol with every Russian in Russia taking their summer holiday, whilst Denmark in April seems perhaps on the blusterous side, and plotting crazy cycling in August gives me four months of English spring weekends in which to improve my cycling stamina. Am I missing something critical?
Is there anyone reading this with knowledge of the area who can suggest whether it would be more fun to cycle from Copenhagen down to Lubeck, Kiel, Flensburg, Odense, back to Copenhagen, or to go across to Malmo and up the east coast of Sweden to Stockholm, which looks as if it could be done as ten fifty-mile days (though I need better-than-Google maps to see how near to the coast you can go and how you can avoid the E22), then jump on a train back?
Are there likely to be problems with taking a hired bike across the Denmark-Sweden or Denmark-Germany border?
There are two things I'd like to do this year: a few hundred miles of cycle touring somewhere around Denmark-ish, and some standard city-hopping-by-train backpacking in Ukraine: Lviv, Kiev, either Yalta or Odessa, Kamyanets-Podilsky if I can figure out how to get there.
I was thinking Denmark at Easter and Ukraine in the summer, but the more I look the more it seems sensible to do them the other way round; Ukraine in August is clearly very hot and the south coast covered from Odessa to Mariupol with every Russian in Russia taking their summer holiday, whilst Denmark in April seems perhaps on the blusterous side, and plotting crazy cycling in August gives me four months of English spring weekends in which to improve my cycling stamina. Am I missing something critical?
Is there anyone reading this with knowledge of the area who can suggest whether it would be more fun to cycle from Copenhagen down to Lubeck, Kiel, Flensburg, Odense, back to Copenhagen, or to go across to Malmo and up the east coast of Sweden to Stockholm, which looks as if it could be done as ten fifty-mile days (though I need better-than-Google maps to see how near to the coast you can go and how you can avoid the E22), then jump on a train back?
Are there likely to be problems with taking a hired bike across the Denmark-Sweden or Denmark-Germany border?
