| 2. Cycling Holidays |
| Country Lanes |
bicycling day trips, short breaks and longer tours from cycle hire centres in the Cotswolds, Lake District and New Forest. |
http://www.countryl
anes.co.uk/ |
| Cycle Breaks |
cycling holidays in Suffolk and Norfolk. |
http://www.cycleb
reaks.co.uk |
| Happy Trails Bike Rides |
daily accompanied bike rides from Bugle, Carlyon Bay and Pentewan to the Eden Project. |
http://www.happytr
ailsbikeri
des.com |
| Holiday Lakeland |
provides supported holidays across a range of routes. |
http://www.holiday
-lakeland.co.uk |
| Lee Valley Park |
regional park providing leisure activities including cycling. |
http://www.leevall
eypark.org.uk |
| Let's Off-road Limited |
biking holidays. |
http://www.letsoff
roaduk.com/
mountain |
| Independent Backpackers Hostels Scotland |
hostel accommodation in Scotland. |
http://www.hostel-
scotland.co.uk |
| hini |
hostel accommodation in Northern Ireland. |
http://www.hini.
org.uk |
| syha |
youth hostels in Scotland. |
http://www.syha.
org.uk |
| yha |
hostels in England and Wales. |
http://www.yha.org.
uk/youth |
| British Tourist Authority |
hostels in England and Wales. |
http://www.visitb
ritain.com |
| Scottish Tourist Board |
|
http://www.visits
cotland.com |
| Wales Tourist Board |
|
http://www.visi
twales.com |
| Northern Ireland Tourist Board |
|
http://www.discove
rnorthernireland
.com |
| Englands North West |
|
http://www.englan
dsnorthwest.com |
| North Cornwall Tourism |
|
http://www.northco
rnwall-live
.com |
| North York Moors National Park |
|
http://www.moors
.uk.net |
| Causeway Coast & Glens |
|
http://www.causew
aycoasta
ndglens
.com |
| Mersey Travel |
|
http://www.merseyt
ravel.gov.uk |
| Snowdonia Society |
|
http://www.snowdo
nia-society
.org.uk |
| Visit Caerphilly |
|
http://www.visitc
aerphilly.com |
| Servas |
14,000 families and individuals in over 130 countries on six continents will welcome you in their homes. |
http://www.servas
.org |
| Touring Cyclists' Hospitality Directory |
places to stay for cyclists in America. |
http://home.earth
link.net/~jmo
sley/TCHD.html |
| Warm Showers List |
Internet cyclists who offer their hospitality to touring cyclists. |
http://www.rogergra
vel.com/wsl/
vh_for_a.html |
| Bicycle Africa |
specialises in soft bike/cultural adventure for Westerners seeking to learn more about Africa at a person-to-person level, not usually available to tourists. |
http://www.ibike.
org/bikeafrica |
| Cycle Rides |
fully supported bike holidays in and around Europe. |
http://www.cycle-
rides.co.uk |
| Cycling for Softies |
organises unescorted biking vacations throughout rural France. |
http://www.cycling-
for-softies.co.uk |
| Discovery Travel |
cycling holidays in the UK and the rest of Europe for independent travellers. |
http://www.discove
rytravel.co.uk |
| saddle skedaddle |
cycling, mountain biking and multi-activity holidays in the UK, the rest of Europe, America and New Zealand. |
http://www.skedad
dle.co.uk |
| French Cycling Holidays |
specialist in guided cycling holidays in France |
http://www.frenchc
yclingholidays
.com |
| Panholes Cottages |
5 star self-cating accomodation near Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland |
http://www.panhole
scottages.co.uk |
| Languedoc Cycling |
Cycling holidays in Languedoc |
http://www.langued
occycling.com |
Youth hostels
|
| Austria |
|
http://www.oejhw
.or.at |
| Belgium-Flanders |
|
http://www.jeugdh
erbergen.be |
| Belgium-Walloon Region |
the Walloon youth hostels' association has an English website that includes cycle routes from youth hostel to youth hostel in Belgium |
http://www.laj.be |
| Czech Republic |
|
http://www.hostel
.cz |
| Denmark |
|
http://www.danho
stel.dk |
| Estonia |
|
http://www.online
.ee/~eyha |
| France |
|
http://www.fuaj
.org |
| Germany |
|
http://www.jugend
herberge.de/
html/index.jsp |
| Holland |
|
http://www.stay
okay.com/
default.cfm |
| Hungary |
|
http://www.budap
esthotels.hu |
| Iceland |
|
http://www.hostel
.is |
| Ireland |
|
http://www.irela
ndyha.org |
| Italy |
|
http://www.ostell
ionline.org |
| Luxembourg |
|
http://www.youth
hostels.lu/f
/index.html |
| Russia |
|
http://www.hoste
lling-russ
ia.ru |
| Sweden |
|
http://www.stftu
rist.se/STF_
INT/sv.asp?
LanCD=EN |
| Switzerland |
|
http://www.youth
hostel.ch |
| Europe |
|
http://www.eufe
d.org |
| Worldwide |
|
http://www.hihos
tels.com |
Cycling the UK
North of England:
|
| Cycling in Cheshire |
|
http://www.cheshire
.gov.uk/countryside
/cycling/index
.html |
| Cycling in Kielder |
|
http://www.kiel
der.org/cycl
ing.htm |
| Cycling in the Lake District |
|
http://www.lakedi
strictoutdoors.
co.uk/biking
.htm |
| Cycling in Staffordshire |
a full cycling training and consultation service to individuals, business, schools, groups and events organisers in Staffordshire and the surrounding counties
|
http://www.cycles
taffordshire
.co.uk |
| Mountain Biking in Coquetdale |
|
http://www.coque
tdale.com |
| Bradford Cycle Action Group |
|
http://www.bradf
ordcyclists
.org.uk |
| Calderdale Cycling Promotion Group |
|
http://www.todnet
.demon.co.uk
/sites/ccpg |
| Chester Cycling Campaign |
|
http://website.
lineone.net/~
chestercycling |
| Cycling Project for the North West |
|
http://cpnw.newco
mweb.demon
.com |
| Greater Manchester Cycling Group |
|
http://www.gmcc
.org.uk |
| Hull Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.nic.
karoo.net/hcc |
| Merseyside Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.merse
yworld.com
/mcc |
| Middlesborough Cycle Centre |
|
http://www.middl
esbroughcycle
centre.co.uk |
| Pedal Pushers: The Sheffield Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.pedal
pushers.org
.uk |
| Warrington Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.warrin
gtoncycleca
mpaign.co.uk |
|
Midlands
|
| Hereford Cycle Users Group |
|
http://www.users.
globalnet.co.
uk/~hereford |
| Leicester Spokes |
|
http://www.leice
sterspokes.
org.uk |
| Loughborough & District Cycle Users' Campaign |
|
http://homepage.
ntlworld.com/
john.catt/LDCUC
_Home.htm |
| Nottingham Pedals |
|
http://www.pedals
.org.uk |
| Push Bikes: Birmingham Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.push
bikes.frees
erve.co.uk |
|
East
|
| Cambridge Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.camc
ycle.org.uk |
| Colchester Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.colch
ester-cycling
.org.uk |
| Cycling in Norfolk |
|
http://www.visit
norfolk.co.uk/
visit-norfolk/
isite.nsf/
language/en/
cycleRoutes
.html |
| Peterborough |
|
http://www.peterbor
ough.gov.uk/
peterborough/
maps/greenwhe
el.html |
| Norwich Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.norwic
hcycling.fsnet
.co.uk |
| St Albans Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.stacc
.org.uk/index
.html |
|
London & South East
|
| Brighton & Hove District Cycling Group |
|
http://www.bricy
cles.org.uk |
| Cycling in Farnham |
|
http://homepage.
ntlworld.com/
geofarce.data
bend |
| Cycling in Hampshire |
|
http://www.hants.
gov.uk/cycling |
| Cycling in Kent |
|
http://www.kent.
gov.uk/sp/cycl
ing/intro.html |
| Cycling in London |
|
http://www.londonc
yclenetwork.org |
| Cycling Romney Marsh |
|
http://www.rmcp.
co.uk |
| London Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.lcc.
org.uk |
| Reading Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.readingc
yclecampaign.
org.uk |
| Southampton Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.soton.
ac.uk/~bikeuser
/scc.htm |
| Spokes East Kent |
|
http://www.spokese
astkent.org.uk/
campaign.htm |
| Spokes South West Herts |
|
http://www.spokes
group.com |
| Woking Cycle Users Group |
|
http://www.woking
cycle.org.uk |
| Worthing Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.fonant
.co.uk/wcc |
|
South West
|
| Bristol |
|
http://btsa.es
/demos |
| Bristol Cycling Campaign |
|
http://bcc.gn.
apc.org |
| Dorset Cyclists Network |
|
http://www.dcn
.org.uk |
| Cycling in Devon |
|
http://www.bbc.co
.uk/devon/outdoo
rs/cycling/bik
epage_index.
shtml |
| Cycling in Cornwall |
|
http://www.cyclec
ornwall.com |
|
Scottish sites of interest
|
| Cycle Hebrides |
|
http://www.cycleh
ebrides.com |
| Cycling Scotland I |
|
http://www.cycling.
visitscotland.com |
| Cycling Scotland II |
|
http://www.scotland
-inverness.co.uk/
activities.htm |
| Cycle Routes in SE Scotland & NE England |
|
http://www.bikero
utes.org.uk |
| CTC Scotland |
|
http://www.ctcsco
tland.org.uk |
| Go Bike: Strathclyde Cycle Campaign Highland Cycling Campaign |
|
http://www.gobike.
org |
| Spokes: the Lothian Cycle Campaign |
|
http://www.spokes
.org.uk |
| Scottish Cycling Development Project |
a Scottish cycling website for non-cyclists (recommended). |
http://www.scotti
shcycling.org |
|
Welsh sites of interest
|
| Cycle Paths in South Wales |
George Waring displays some of the scenes along the Celtic Trail and other cycle paths in South Wales |
http://www.users.
zetnet.co.uk/
warings/ |
| Cycling Mid Wales |
|
http://cycling.
powys.gov.uk/
english/default
.php3 |
| M B Wales |
|
http://www.mbwales.com |
| Cardiff Cycling Campaign |
|
http://website.
lineone.net/
~mike.kohnstamm
/ccc/index.htm |
| Swansea & West Wales CTC |
|
http://www.dansoper
.clara.co.uk/
cycling |
| Cycling in North Wales CTC Cyrmru |
|
http://www.conwy
ctc.fsnet.co
.uk |
|
Irish sites of interest
|
| Cycling in Sperrins |
|
http://www.cyclin
gireland.com |
| Pedal Power |
Derry City Council Area. |
http://www.pedalp
owerni.org/pub
lic/index.aspx |
|
Cycling the World
|
| Austria |
the cycling section of the Austrian tourist authority’s website. |
http://homes.tis
cover.com/proj
ect/themen/the
ma_hl...2.
html?_thema=
36662&_thues
=37229 |
| Denmark |
information about cycling in Denmark under “Activities” in the top menu “Guide”. |
http://www.visit
denmark.com |
| Europe |
Rick and Sandy Sullivan share a decade of tips and useful travelling information, exclusively for cyclists touring Europe. |
http://www.euroc
ycle.com |
| Holland I |
the cycling section in the Dutch tourist authority’s website is excellent. |
http://www.holl
and.com |
| Holland II |
everything on the 6,500 km long signposted cycle route network in The Netherlands. |
http://www.fiets
platform.nl |
| Holland III |
a presentation of cycle tours throughout the Netherlands ranging from city tours to long distance routes. |
http://www.tribute
.nl/nbt/fiet
sen |
| Iceland |
|
http://home.wana
doo.nl/erens/
iceland.htm |
| Ireland |
type “cycling” in the search engine under “Things to Do”. |
http://www.ireland
.travel.ie/thi
ngstodo |
| Luxembourg |
the cycling section of the Luxembourg tourist authority’s website. |
http://www.ont.
lu/sports.htm |
| Norway |
|
http://inet.uni2.
dk/~ernst/touring
/norbike.htm |
| Quebec |
|
http://www.routeve
rte.com/ang/index
.lasso |
| Switzerland |
This is a great site. (recommended) |
http://www.cycling
-in-switzerl
and.ch |
| United States |
lots of information on the website of the Adventure Cycling Association. |
http://www.adv-
cycling.org |
| Amsterdam I |
|
http://www.ams
terdam.nl |
| Amsterdam II |
|
http://web.inter
.nl.net/users/
Paul.Treanor/
cy |
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