Well, Harry & Potter connects me slightly differently to my focused 🚴♂️ ride today. Apparently the Glenfinnan Viaduct is linked to fantasy around Harry Potter but my connection goes rather back to work in South Korea and a lovely dog 🐕🦺 named Potter.
Fair winds…
Today‘s focus ride covered one of the famous Slate Islands – Easdale. It not only used to be the center of the Scottish slate industry for almost three centuries (!) but still, until today, remains the smallest of the inhabited Inner Hebrides Islands.
A more than remarkable international event taking place here are the World Stone Skimming Championships 😅 hosted every year, in September.
A fantastic 🚴♂️ today!
Fair winds…
Today‘s ride into the outskirts of Oban can be summarized under BBC. Strolling around over nice country roads took me to three highlights.
An easy 🚴♂️ under dry Scottish sky!
Fair winds…
Under sunny conditions my last ride on the Isle of Mull took me today again around on the island to enjoy some more stunning landscape and scenery.
The weather is black and white in this part of the world. As soon as the sun comes out you will love it. In rainy conditions you damn it. Nothing special with that. The difference is that these changes are happening in hours and not in days. We slowly get used to it.
Fair winds…
Scattered showers all day but with the help of the rain radar I was confident to get a nice coffee & cake in Salen, South of Tobermory – staying dry. Wishful thinking. The cake was excellent, the coffee average and I was wet to the skin upon arrival. My bike winter clothing kept me warm! 😅
Fair winds.
The sky opened up for a bike ride in some spectacular landscape here in Scotland. I was looking forward to that and all pain was forgotten – a pure joy ride. You get it all on 50km with comfortable 1000m up and down.
The locals enjoy the beach at around 23°C air temperature and 14°C for the water. It is summer. Once body and mind are both accustomed to the weather, you will appreciate the magnificence of this nature even more.
It was a long ride today but I was keen to round Strangford Lough to get a first hand impression. It was nice but not spectacular. Although not much traffic at all I am impressed about the respect cars give to bikers.
Fair winds…
Despite today’s weather was not as charming as forecasted, we got compensated by some magnificent landscape in the county of Wicklow. Chilly but rewarding, not only caused by the pitstop in Ireland’s highest pub!
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The two photos aside represent how colorful the city of Dublin presents itself. Traditional and modern aspects go hand in hand in many ways. Our walk took us around to explore both areas at the same time.
Lunch was served in “The Brazen Head“, which claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to 1189.
Today’s walk was another nice experience supported by Komoot to get around in this exceptional capital city.
Dublin seems to be a biking city. There are not only serious cycling tracks downtown but also here in the suburb of Dún Loaghaire. Today‘s ride took me to some of the nearby local attractions. Pretty impressive, I think.
Fair winds…
Today‘s ride took me through some impressive country side to some more island hotspots. First I stopped by at Robert‘s Cove Beach before heading on to Kinsale. The two places could not be more different in many aspects.
Fair winds…
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