Cold
Copenhagen
Among other places I really want to visit, Copenhagen and Denmark are definitely (maybe) going to get a visit.
I follow the copenhagencyclechic.com and the copenhagenize.com blogs (maybe written by the same person?), and they’ve made me fall in love with the city!
The only problem is the same problem thats putting me off many in my tick list, this is the weather, or more specifically the temperature!
Its going to be a cold winter being on the bike all the time wherever I go in Europe, but being in the northern areas will probably make the suffering even worse!
All Roads Lead to Brno
So far I’ve tried not to actually plan anything for the Eurocycle, the aim is, afterall to keep my options open and just decided where to go when I feel like it. There is only one thing in my itinerary so far: I’ve been invited by a friend, along with others, to visit him for New Year’s Eve. He lives in Brno, Czech.
My first thought was to aim to cycle there for the end of December, I could easily cover the distance from mostly anywhere in western Europe in a few weeks, and it’d at least give me something to aim for right in the middle of the tour.
This idea has quickly vanished when I found out that it is usually -10C in Czech at that time of year, and last year, I’ve been informed, was “very cold, 25 degrees, brrrr.” He did mean MINUS 25 degrees!
Since this revelation I’ve decided to park the bike somewhere a little warmer and get a plane/train/coach over. I could try and contact someone on WarmShowers.org, and see if they’ll keep my bike for a week or so, or I could leave it with friends in Belgium, or even cycle back to the UK.
There are a few others going to Brno at the same time, so I could feasibly leave my bike with them (southern England) and fly back out, but this seems to be a bit silly, having to go back to England, then all the way back to Czech, especially as its possible for me to be only a few hundred miles away!
Whichever way I decide to proceed, I’m hoping to leave some warm clothes with someone coming over from home, at least that way I might be a little respectible and not skin-tight!