North Sea Cycle Route 2008 - Links

This collection is by no means complete. If you have any additions, please contact me at ts.semper.d@googlemail.com (I reserve the right to select the links to add to this page)

I am especially interested in any links to NSCR travelogues.

General Links

• The official North Sea Cycle Route web site
• Some information on the german part of the NSCR, including some GPS data for download.

My Journey

• My original travel blog (german)
• The 2007/07/17 issue of the Farsunds Avis in Norway had a nice (as far as I can understand the Norwegian) Article on my journey.
• On the 2007/07/22 the Aftenbladet in Stavanger had an article.

North Sea Cycle Route Travelogues

Websites

english travelogues

• bronjack is underway (at the time I post this link, in august 2014) with her family to complete the whole NSCR.
• Desmond Denning completed the trip in 2010
• Graham Wilson also did the whole thing in 2010
• Katherine and Tom cycled the whole NSCR from May to September 2011
• Martin Writtram travelled the NSCR in 2002 and 2003.
• D J Jongkind and Stan Williams travelled severals parts of the NSCR over the lst few years
• Tony Calvert did part of the NSCR in 2008
• Matthieu Calu traveled 349 km on the NSCR in April 2010
• Denmark to Holland on the NSCR in 2003
• Hamburg - Skagen - Grenaa - Varberg - Kristiansand in 2002
• The danish part of the NSCR in 2009
• Chris New had to abandon his trip after 800km due to a near-fatal drowning accident.

german travelogues

• Core Rider: Peter Spiegel was one of the riders on the opening tour of the NSCR.
• Andreas Rohrer and Bettina Zanolari made the complete round in April - June 2011
• Anja & Christian Degenhardt travelled the whole of the NSCR in 2010
• Another nice travelogue, though I couldn't figure our who and when...
• Annelene travelled the NSCR in 2010.
• Christian Liebich travelled 4250 km on the NSCR in 2005
• From Hamburg to Skagen on the NSCR in 2009
• Jörg Voßwinkel travelled part of the Norwegian section of the NSCR in 2007.
• fakirsessels travels, including the NSCR
• Dagmar Buggle travelled the NSCR back in 2010

Videos

• Some impressions from the danish part of the NSCR
• Another nice video on the danish NSCR
• Images from the scotish and englisch part of the NSCR
• A few minutes on the norwegian NSCR
• Images from the norwegian NSCR

Books

• In a Roundabout Way is a book written by Mary and Lionel Blanche. Their website also contains some information about the NSCR.
• Round the North Sea Awheel
• Cycling Back to Happiness, probably the best known book about a trip on the NSCR (amazon link, and no, I don't get comission)

Travelogues of people I met

• Petra's travel blog. (not NSCR) I met her in Edinburgh
• Markus' travel blog. I met him on the ferry from Bergen to Scrabster

Equipment and Maps

• Jan Cordes, a great bike dealer for recumbent bikes.
• My bike is built by HP Velotechnik
• Ortlieb make some excellent bags for bikes.
• Wechsel is a manfacturer of nice tents, though I had problems with the tent poles
• Hilleberg makes some excellent tents.
• Sustrans sells some great maps for the NSCR.
• Castor Forlag has some excellent maps for the norwegian part of the NSCR.

Resources used to build this web site

• The OpenCycleMap map is Maps © Thunderforest, Data © OpenStreetMap contributors
• YUI 2 — Yahoo! User Interface Library
• Weather icons from Dotvoid
• Lightbox2 to display the images
• gpsvisualizer.com created the nice elevation charts
• Maps Icons Collection https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com

Other related websites

• The website of the
• North Sea Region Programme
has a promotional video of the NSCR
• Cycletourer has some information on the NSCR, touring tips and lots of travelogues.
• Nordwestreisemagazin has a long description of the North Sea Cycle Route (german)

Other sites related to cycle touring

Travelogues