Cycle Tour Around the Great Belt

Four days cycle holiday alone in April 2018. Accommodation in my tent at camp sites. Transport by train from Nyborg t(Funen) o Korsoer (Zealand) and by ferry from Taars (Lolland) to Spodsbjerg (Langeland)

I'll set out on this bicycle trip across Eastern Funen to the old city of Nyborg (Newcastle in translation, but everything is relative, you know). Here I have a look at the reconstruction of Nyborg Castle, which is to be restored as it stood in the middle ages. After the Great Belt crossing to Korsoer, I head south. On the trip, I will go through the southern Zealand landscape with its coastal cliffs with outer islands that form lagoons behind. Towns to be (shortly) visisted are the fruit and marmalade town of Skaelskoer, the summer town of Karrebaeksminde, the largish Naestved and Vordingborg with the medieval fortress ruins. Falster, where I spent a whole bicycle holiday in 2016, I go straight across to Lolland. This big flat moraine island has large forests and a lot of sugar beetlands. The tour passes Knuthenborg safari park and on to the bronze age mound of Birket Bavnehoej. With staggering 30m it's Lolland's highest point. My replanned stage goal will be a tiny camp site at a secluded bay on Norhthern Lolland, called Onsevig. Of towns on Lolland, I will have a look at Sakskoebing. Otherwise nature (and agriculture, as it is) will reign throughout. After the crossing to Langeland, the bike tour peters out with some island hopping, first Langeland traversely with the hatshaped hills, the tiny Siø and the hilly Taasinge. Svendborg has to do without me, before hitting the roof of the tour in the hills of Egebjerg, the counterpart of Svanninge hills further west. Route 55 will carry me safely back to Odense. Possibly I jump on the train from Svendborg at some point. All in all this promise to be four enjoyable vacation days in the saddle and in my tent at night. In mid-April, I probably will need my Estonian super sleeping bag from the Nordic cold wave in May last year. But i want to go low-budget, so anythin more luxurious than camping is no-go. In addition, I intend to cook my own food on my gas cooker. And drink water. Okay, the latter condition will surely not be met. But the former ones do. You bet.

No travel to and from! I'll bike all the way except the two Great Belt crossings out- and homebound.

The trip was accomplished as planned, with only minor detours on Eastern Lolland in order to shorten it slightly.