A few impressions

before the start in Land’s End ready, steady, go! – 1,598.95km lying ahead of me one of endless descents and ascents (here: at the western foothills of Peak Distric National Park) Peak District National Park near Buxton (strong high winds) ridiculous 524m seriously was the highest point of my entire tour – still the overall [...]

Photos of the tour are finally online!

10 Sep 2010: departure day – 1st attempt 11 Sep 2010: departure day – 2nd attempt 12 Sep 2010: day 0 (Penzance-Land’s End-Penzance [Heamor]) 13 Sep 2010: day 1 (Penzance [Heamor]-Tavistock [Langstone Manor]) 14 Sep 2010: day 2 (Tavistock [Langstone Manor]-Cheddar) 15 Sep 2010: day 3 (Cheddar-Leominster [Luston]) 16 Sep 2010: day 4 (Leominster [Luston]-Buxton) 17 Sep 2010: day 5 (Buxton-Leeds) 18 Sep [...]

Oxfam & I say thank you!

A great thank you to everyone who supported my fundraising activity! Having done the UK bike tour for charity – Oxfam in Germany – led to an amazing 1,361.82 € in donations. As I found, my initial target of collecting 1 Euro per mile of cycling (i.e. 1,000 €) was quite optimistic already. I’ve never [...]

route details (incl. GPS)

the complete route from Land’s End to John O’Groats [elevation/timing shown behind this link are incorrect - only the route itself + distance is displayed correctly]: These are the correct totals: ascent: 14,156 m; descent: 14,223 m; dist.: 1,598.95 km; travel time: 104:09; moving time: 83:51; overall avg.: 15.4 kph; moving avg.: 19.1 kph; max. speed: 61.9 kph DAY 0 [...]

GPS data of trip online

GPS tracks of my bike tour are online now! Please check out the following link: http://martinkarltracks.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cycling-on-offroad/ Stories and photos will be online soon too. Watch the space!

made it!

Sorry that it took me a while – but I actually had to get back to Germany first in order to find some online access again… To let you know: I’ve made it – arrived safely and happily in John O’Groats on a cloudy and extremely head-windy Thursday afternoon. And surprisingly, EasyJet even managed to [...]

Leeds Met is also trying to support me:

http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/fbl/56F0552897334A618163939FF118E780.htm

still alive

This is just to provide you with a brief update: I actually made it onto the island after all, spent a night at the airport (was too late and couldn’t really find my hotel on time), cycled through the centre of London, took a train to Penzance and actually cycled the first official 15km of [...]

Berchtesgaden to Flensburg instead?! Or: boycott EasyJet!!

First update: This is from the Apple Store in… no, not London, nowhere near actually… it’s from the one in MUNICH! Plan B is in place already – before the beginning of my tour! Thanks to the greatest airline on earth, EasyJet! I was checked in, I was at the gate, together with more than [...]

A day before the start!

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