Rudolf Virchow Krankenhaus

Sorry I didnot write updates for the last two weeks or so. But what happened was, that something definetly very bad stroke Sickboy and me, while we were travling in England, passing Thunderland, close to Newcastle. Sickboy stumbled and
I lost balance. I flew, dived, crashed on the ground and lost mr. shoulder in a red and black cloud of awful pain.

Uh, How surprised I was, to be stroken out of a grey and rainy sky so badly. For what doing wrong??? I donnot have
any idea yet. Same with Sickboy. no idea.

May be it was simply for passing Thunderland without asking Mr. Thor for a permission. Sickboys guess:
Maybe a chinese dragon was angry, cause I was not to aggurate with the chinese's magic zodiac.

For sure I missed the fact, that the route we were travling had been designed as a challenge, Thunderland was not meant for just passing through.

Sickboy is upset I didnot understand this...
This part of NSCR had been designed like a Supermario Nintendo Game. All together there were a number of mayheb 12 traps, to pass by, jump over or crash through. We hit number 5 or 6.

Next i remember is we arrived Berlin on weekend. And entered Rudolf Virchow Krankenhaus around three in the afternoon. I tell u, this place really is hell.

And now that satan hold me he did not let me go anymore. Deep inside the earth deep under Rudolf Virchow Krankenhaus there are a huge number of dwarfs living.In their labs they are transforming steel into titanium made nails and plates.

Right in that night devils hammered me 1 of this titanium plates inside my shoulder. There are 11 nails crashed through my bones. Skin is closed with 13 stitches. Today is a week later Tuesday and it is still a little painful, I tend to say. :)

Two days later I managed to run and look for a new entry into a better life. but the devils have titanium-marked me, forever and forwhom ever who is concern to know I am passing by. Maybe Thor, maybe Chinese's dragon, maybe Supermario, maybe Mr. Sofarunknown. I am about to find out and let you know, as soon, as I did understand.

The northsea tour will continue nextcoming summer. Me plan is to write you an accurate day by day record from last post in Northyorkshire until return to Berlin. Please gimme a little time to sum up the details...

Standing Stone

Want to talk with you about this place. It is biggest Stone standing in Britain. It is located inside graveyard of Rudson. Ancient tripes used this place to meet their gods. Later they decided to have the option for paradise and changed to christianity. Place becomes sainted by a priest and normans build the fundaments of the church you see on the picture.

In and around Northyorkshiremoor landscape is covered with a grid of former ancient places, folks changed most of them for their actual religion. My plan was to cycle around and visit some of them. Due to bad weather this did not work. I walked around Scarborough and visited castle and harbor instead.

Humber

Goodbye Netherlands, Good morning Britain! This is Humber bay six o'clock in the morning. There is still some blue sky to be seen over Northsea. But only half an hour later heavy rains and thunderstorms start and donnot stop over the day. This holiday seems to become a little wet, I am afraid to say.

Great Cycleways

Get a first taste of North Sea Cycle Route today. Pic shows the scenary you might expect, when you cross river in Maassluis. Ferry take you to Rozenburg. From Rozenburg NSCR continues to Belgium. I left route after 30 minute to journey to Hull ferry. No need to be afraid about travling through the Rotterdam harbor to Europort. There is a cycleway, taking you smothy and stressless to P&O terminal.

Communication Breakdown

Hello homebase, thats the captain speaking. After the first heavy rains in the Netherlands we had some major fallout in our communication system. I sent Scotty and Seven on comdeck to repair the failures. Both complain about oldfashioned phone and outdated technology. I am not to positiv that we will have a approbiate GSM signal sent or received by the end of out mission. Best way to communicate maybe web or postcard. I sorry for any inconvinent..

Another Ferry

This is SickBoy waiting on a selfservice ferry to be passed over by me. Ferry is south of Amsterdam on the way to Gouda.

Gouda

Everything went very well on Friday. No workers uprise in Germany, no thunderstorms, no major fallouts onboard!
We left train @ Amsterdam an traveld south. Against hard wind and a light rain. First call: Gouda. Wonderful town. Start Saturday morning to reach Europort and Hull ferry.

Grand Day Out

Left the train south of Amsterdam. Thats the place were the tour started: Amsterdam Stadium.

SickBoy went a little mad, cause I do not allow to travel into Amsterdam. What I say is: Say no to drugs, no to prostitution and no to alcohol! We are in a healthy holiday, traveling cross Netherland's countrysite.

So passing stadium we bounded southward. Compass' red arrow always pointing at me. There is a cycleway to be found along the Amstel river. Hu! I think Amstel is not a regular river. Furthermore it changes names maybe every 50 to 80 kilometers. Map says, when Amstel reach Maass at Rotterdam name is Goude. Hm, no matter where or what. I fonund it excellent to travel along the water south.

DDay

Time to start. Goodbye Berlin.

I will leave Berlin tomorrow morning. But tonight we will have a drink in the Victoria Bar.

Nervous is what I am. All seems to be against me: Germans railroad workers association is fighting for more money. No idea if they will work tomorrow.

There are heavy thunderstorms all over Europe. No dream weather for a cycle tour through busy Rotterdam harbor.

Wonder if the ship will travel between Rotterdam and Hull? If there is a hurrican, they might stay in secure harbour.

Ufff.

Finally: People on TV spoke about heavy floodings in Yorkshire.

I 10d to say: Hull is Yorkshire. Shit! I will buy some bathtrouses for Sickboy in Amsterdam.

If everything goes OK it will be Whitby, where we arrive on Saturday.

Will let you know...

Accomodation Angus

There are a number of friendly small villages located in between Aberdeen and Dundee. They are all connected via North Sea Cycle Route.

I found, that there is no problem to find a place to lay my head for a good sleep. So I stayed in a Hotel in Abroath. Had italian pasta for dinner and remember the whole place as a little boring - just as it looks on the pic.

Maybe u want to stay longer than one night? I understand they have something like a freedom declaration in town you can sightsee somewhere. Furthermore a cathedral and a pretty interesting lighthouse museum.

Magic Zodiac

I am travling on a Magic Zodiac mission again.

Following the spell of Mr. Catweazle:

>>Twelve there are that circle round.
If power you seek they must be found.
Look for where the 13th lies.
Mount aloft - the one wo flies<<

Last year I collected western zodiac signs, I started with the Cancer.

This year I will look for the signs of eastern zodiac, starting with, hem, Golden Pig as I understand. Donnot know what place I can pick a pig. But maybe they grew some in Amsterdam, perhaps. Let you know!!

Sickboy On Board

Did I introduce to Simon SickBoy Milkplus Williamson, my dear bike? He got is name last year, when we try to reach the ship from Denmark's Hanstolm to Faroer. It was still 20 Kilometers to go, when the chain broke. Uhhh! Bad luck. Chain was new and - as cycle doctor told me - made f0r 100 years lifetime. Wonder why he told my lies??

So we changed cycle doctor this year.

SickBoy returned from hospital on Monday and we have had the first ride already. He is fresh and excited to start taveling. Let you now, how long chain lasted this year.

Pic shows Sickboy Milkplus with broken chain in the Faroer ferry. Chatting with my cabin neighbour's Harley bike. Ha! Wonder who is more coool?

First Episode about to start

I am at count down 6 now. So it was about time to buy the train ticket to Amsterdam. Buy the journey on the web and pay only 29 Euri normal price is around 120 Euros. To take SickBoy with me is another 10er. Strange enough there is no SickBoy ticket sale on the web, so you have to ask for cycleticket at station or travel agency.

We will start traintraveling as soon as 830 on Friday, train is scheduled to arrive around 15oo. So it sounds like a six hour trip. Uff. Will need a Heiniken as soon as I leave the train, I guess.

What to do next is to be disscused on the train. I tend to say, it will depent on the weather. If it is raining we travel a short ride to the coast and stay there over night. No rain - mayheb we travel southmost as possible direction Rotterdam. So we donnot have to worry to embark ferry on time.

Stonecircle: Stennes

There are two major Stonecircles located on Orkney Islands. Stennes is the smaller ring, but using the bigger stones. When I arrived there I donnot know - and I didnot learn until today - how to act the historic correct way. I mean: Do I have to stand inbetween the stones, to look outside. Or do I have to stand outside the ring, looking in. Which leads to the question: From a stone's point of view - were is the frontside, what is the backside? Maybe this is not important at all?

I understand that scientist tend to the opinion ancient folks did their meeting inside the circle, looking out - for example to the moon. But were there same time people standing around the circle, watching the druids play?

Obiverously there were changes, as soon as the vikings indigrate stonecircles in their rituals. Vikings located their burial places around the circles, not inside them.

No matter who did what inside or out: Pic shows two of the stones seen from sideward.

Stonecircle: Tyrebagger Hill

There is no way to travel around Britain without passing by at least one Stonecircle. Some thousand year ago some ancient folks ensembled the stones in this specific order, so their druids can gather together in this location to watch the moon, discuse the stars, have a good drink and slaughter some neighbours for their ancient god's sake

Tyrebagger hill is one of the Aberdeenshire famous ancient places. Circle is located close to North Sea Cycle Route, so you pass by as sure, as it is not too easy to find.

As you see on the map, NSCR leads you through a town called Dyce, first call after leaving Aberdeen behind. There is Aberdeen airport and huge Dyce industrial estate inbetween you and Tyrebagger hill. Second challange: Stonecircle is not located - as promised - on Tyrebagger hill. But next hill, Marcus hill, I tend to say.

So how to get there? Hm, not so easy. Please leave Cycle Route and bike west. Pass by airport and industrial estate. Maybe it is not shown on your map. But there is a small way to be found running between industry and hill. Follow this way and cycle uphill. Stones are on a green, surrounded by cows.

Stirling's Sleepy Dragon

Please allow me to introduce you to some fairies you might meet on your tour round the North Sea. For example this dear sleeping dragon. He is guarding the bridge of Bruce in Stirling.

Study your map and u will learn, Stirling is not exactly located alongsite the North Sea Cycle Route. It may be about a good day's travel from Edinburgh or Dundee. And it is worth the way to check old Scotland's center. Stirling is a place of glourious victories, badly defeats, sleepy dragons, proud Scots.

Accomodation: Aberdeen

Oilprices are somewhere up in the clouds this days. For Aberdeen, center of british oil industry this means business and wealth. Any empty room is rented as B&B to business people working for American, British or Saudi Companies with well known names.
I cruised town for several hours without any result. Hm, bad is not to know where to sleep the fastcoming night. A lovely elderly couple finally offered their sofa. Uh, I cannot accept this! So Mrs A. phonesearched for a room and managed to book me into crowded Aberdeen Youthhostel. Wonderful old lady! I stayed in Youthhostel's posh room for one night, and in a three bed room on night number 2.
At breakfast I learnd that Aberdeen is overrun by oil industrie for real. In the morning at 7.00 were four or five oil manager having their morning tea at the Youthhostel, while I started my tour south.

Inverbervie's Glorious Witch

You will see a witch on the North Sea Cycle Route. Please meet Mrs Cutty Sarg, famous for being the patron of a 19th century mergant ship. Inverberie is located half way in between Montrose and Stonehaven, on the eastcoast south of Aberdeen. Cutty Sarg is not only name of witch and ship, but also of whiskey, the people of Inverberie produce somewhere around their homeplace. So why not stop by to enjoy some hard stuff to honour Mrs Witch?

Colchester's Black Knight

Wonder if you can think of a male english person, being more english than Sir Black Knight. "Nobody shall pass" is what he says, he will not accept a defeat. To stop in front of this famous person, chose the passage from the Continent via Harwich.

Starting in Harwich it may be about 40 kilometers of paddlebiking until you arrive Colchester.

Colchester is said to be the oldest english town. And for that not suprisingly guarded by the Black Knight. Want to say "hello" to Mr. Black: You better be armoured, haha. His guarding place is down mainstreet, please ask for the war memorial at England's oldest castle.

Great Cycleways III

John from Swansea sent a mail and ask, whether it is risky or danger to cycle on roads in Scotland. Sorry, I have only been once to Wales, so I am not sure about ur standard.

You will find a network of great cycleways in Scotland and England. Furthermore there is a huge number of small roads you might use for riding. NSCR guides you along there.

England is well known for hedges and walls, planted along all streets. At least they remind tourists, they are staying in England and to use roads careful.

No walls or hedges in Scotland, as I remember. And no trees in northern Scotland or on the Orkney Islands. The only huge traffic I have seen on Orkney Islands was at the Lidl supermarket carpark in Kirkwell.

Mostly streets are comfortable and empty as B9055 between Loch of Array and Loch of Stennes shown on the pic. B9055 is part of NSCR, connecting the famous stonescircles to surrounding world. Ring of Stennes on the right side and ring of Brodgar somewhere left uphill.

Hei John, no thiefs, no robbers, no warlords by the way.

Great Cycleways II

My favorit cycleway: bike tourist, who are staying in Whitby are being asked to ride this route to Robin Hood Bay - the former railway, known in the old times as the most lovily trainroute all over Britain. Standing on the bridge crossing the Esk 1 understands how romantic things can become, if constructed by english engineers. Please find Cathedral, St. Mary and Northsea in the distance. I understand this cycleway is part of North Sea Cycle Route.

As always the nice things are hard to search for: Whitby townmap might not give you a clue how to enter the cycleway. So please let me give you a hint. Cycleway starts at the former station to Robin's Bay, which does not longer exist. Station were near todays Whitby Mainstation, or somewhere here, or round the corner, who can remember I donnot know. Cycleway climbs up steedily onto the hills and the Esk bridge.

Great Cycleways I

Scotland is covered with a network of great cycleways. A number of them are dismanteld railways, which are now used for cycling or walking.

You travel the countrysite as train did in old times: Riding not over the mountains, but through them. There are a limited number of street crossings and no cars to be seen in 20 kilometer distance. As I understand, the most famous and most beautyful cycleway is north of Aberdeen, leeding into the Highlands. The cycleway on this pic as a little offsite the NSCR - connecting Glasgow with the Irish Sea.

Accommodation: Orkney

Live teached me not to visit Orkney during mid of june. Some sort of musical festival is going on and all rooms are booked and sold out.

So I arrived later. The days and nights I stayed in Kirkwell on Orkney I had the interesting experience to sleep in the only place with trees in a 150 kilometer radius.

Accommodation: Cruden Bay

Bram Stoker traveled regular to Slain's Castle, which is located over the cliffs of Cruden Bay, north of Aberdeen. The castle becomes famous, as Stoker rebuilded this place in the middle of the Carapatians ... and populate it with the undeaths. Shiver!

A room with a very special view is to be found in the St Olaf's Hotel in Cruden Bay. As you sit in a huuuuge sofa you see Staine's Castle in the distance, glowing pink in the evening sun. Fall asleep and wake up in the night again. Vampire's Caste is a black shadow looking over the cliffs.

St Olaf's Hotel is on mainroad near Cruden Bay Golf Course.

Accommodation: Whitby

The town at the english eastcoast is covered with Hotels, Inns and B&Bs. So I have the feeling it is no problem to find a place to stay there for one or several nights. Tourist information place is located in between harbor and trainstation. Lovley ladies working there will search you a room and show you he way to your accommodation.
The place they sent me last year was a B&B named "Number Five" @ Havelock Place. Wonderful place, offering a spooky fullmoon nightview at Whitby Cathedral - and a grandiose full english breakfast in the morning. If you are looking for a special place, ask for the room under the roof and stay as long as you can.

Dundee's Unicorn

Scotland has a high population of fairies, ghosts, witches, unicorns, vampires, pale white women (walking through walls), dragons or even monster. Be aware, that every now and than one of those persons may cross your way. For example this unicorn, to be found in Dundee harbor. Located only two minutes west from North Sea Cycle Route.

Time Schedule for UK

Here is my schedule for the northbound route.

Finishing line is at Stonecircle of Brodgar, shown on the pic.

Day #1 Hull-Whitby

Day #2 Whitby - Robin Hood Bay - Whitby

Day #3 Whitby - Newcastle

Day #4, 5, 6 Newcastle- Edinburgh

Day # 7 Edinburgh - Kingdom of Fife - Perth

D4y # 8,9 Perth - Aberdeenshire

Day # 10 Aberdeen, Aberdeen - Kirkwall

Day # 11 - 15 Kirkwall and Orkney

Day # 16 Scrabster

Day # 17 Scrabster - Bergen

Cycling southbound from Bergen on.

Rotterdam vs. Hull

Started day in a splendid mood. Finished my planning and booked ferry to Norway and passage to Hull. I bought a bed in a 4 bed cabin to Norway. And same for Rotterdam - Hull plus dinner and breakfast.

Checked on Google Maps Rotterdam harbor: To reach the ship on bike looks like a major challenge. Ferry terminal seems to be placed in between a huge number of oil tanks, sixway motorways, cranes, trains, bridges, tunnel and lorry lanes. P&O Lady old me on the telephone check in is located 40 kilometer west of Rotterdam - or 80 kilometer south of Amsterdam, right in the Center of Europoort. To go there I will have to cross river Rhine.

Hehe: I have stolen a satellite photo from Google, to give you an idea, what is expecting me in Rotterdam harbor. Ship is north of green arrow.

Luckily Hull harbor does not look confussing at all. I will arrive on Sunday and cycle north for a huge fish&chips dinner in Whitby.

Crossing Northsea on Rotterdam-Hull passage is not a regular North Sea Cycle Route fullfillment. Correct Ferry is the Hoek van Holland-Harwich line.

Dundee - Kingdom of Fife

Cycling southward on the North Sea Cycle Route I found it confussing how to arrive at Tay Road Bridge in Dundee. Cause cyclists are asked to follow a wild course leading them back and forward through and aroundbound bigcity traffic. Finally 1 gets simply lost in a huge number of bridges over the head and a puzzling number of crisscrossing streets and and shining traffic lights right in front of the nose.

It may not be shown on the map, but: There is a park located on the banks of the river, thats obiverously the place where NSCR traffic planners want to guide you to. What you can expect, when you are through the labyrinth: Right at the foot of the bridge an elevator will lift your cycle and yourself up onto the rivercrossway.

Cycleway and footpath is inbetween the motorways. Finally upstairs it is a pretty long way to cross the river. To give you an idea, please find pic on top of this text.

Pic shows Tay Bridge, build for trains, famous for being destroyd by three witches several centuries ago. Tay Road Bridge is two kilometers or so upstream and looks more stable, I tend to say.

Uh, may be I should add: Picture is taken in Kingdom of Fife. So tennis court is located on the southside of the river. Dear readers are looking north, name of the city its Dundeee, of course. Further north u see Sidlaws Hills.

Kinross' Nasty Monsters

Kinross is located north of Edinburgh, the North Sea Cycle Route is passing through the town. Kinross is historical place because of it's castle, Mary Stuart was imprisoned there. And town is well known in German literatur because of it's Salvation Inn. A strange but famous prussion author - named Theodore Fontane - stayed there, while he had had visited Kinross a 150 years ago or so.

Between castle and Inn you might find Kinross' monsters, protecting water of the well.

Hoy - Orkney Mainland

Hoy island is not part of the North Sea Cycle Route. But if you are visiting Orkney islands or stay in Stromness you might consider it as a interesting site to visit. For example for birdwatching or checking the seals.

There is a place at Moaness on Hoy island, where the ship travel to Stromness. Stromness is the harbor, located at the southwest coast of Orkney Mainland.

Hoy's northern shipstop is not too easy to find. I asked the only two locals I met in Hoy, sadly enough they could not remember the spot where to embark the ship. Hm, and today - a year has passed - I can not remember how I found it in the end.

But finally I reached a small house and an outdated pier. Ship shown on the pic picks up three birdwatchers and me to tansport us back to Mainland. As I remember it as challenging to find pier in Moaness, I have no idea where to search for this ship in Stormness harbor.

Orkney Mainland - Hoy

The old man of Houton is watching the ferry being loaded and prepared to leave terminal for Hoy.

Hoy?

Hoy is the second biggest island of Orkney. Literally two big mountains south of Mainland in the sea. There are two shipping routes connecting Hoy to the Orkney Mainland. This pic shows carferry @ Houton. Ferry travel to southhalf of the island - a place called Lyness.

It is a 2 hours cycling to drive the distance Kirkwall to Houton. I find it a perfect tour to start after breakfast in Kirkwall, cycle to Houton change over to Lyness, paddlebike to Moaness, cross Scapa Flow again to Stromness, passing the stones of Brodgar etc. and be back in Kirkwell for a biiiiig dinner.

Northern shores of Tay, near Dundee...

... the place were young Mary Shelley formed castle in the air. Only some years later Dr. Frankenstein traveled along the Tay, followed by a monster. He visited Edinburgh, leaving after a week and passing through Coupar, St.Andrew's, and along the banks of the river Tay - stopping for a lunch in Newburgh, which is shown somewhere on this pic - to Perth. Some friends were expacting him there. But he didnot stay for too long, as he was impatient to arrive at the termination of his tour. Starting in Perth Doc F. crossed the Highlands and find a miserable hut on one of the remotest Orkney Islands. Arrived! ... to face the monster.

Orkney

This is Shapinsay, seen from Kirkwall harbour on Orkney Mainland. Sun is not West but North, it is July 21th, 23.00 h. The time when the ship come in travelling from Shetland or Aberdeen. Surprise: It is not dark at all. There is plenty light left to find B&B, Hotel or Youthostel. Darkness falls later than midnight or so, as I remember.

Whitby

Wonder if there is a better place to sit with an old typewriter and tell the world about vampiers than this place - is there a better place to tell world about vampiers than the cliffs of Whitby while watching the sea changing into a bloody mess?? Whitby is a small harbor half way in between Hull and Newcastle. Place is famous for Captain Cook, Count Dracula, Fish&Chips and dramatic evening skies.

North Yorkshire Moor

A fantastic route for bicycle cyclist: North Sea Cycle Route leads you up and down the hills of Yorkshire Moor National Parc. Reaching the top of the hills, what you finally see is sky, sky, sky and sky. Some 300 meters downhill you started to climb up at river Esk on waters way to the sea. The moor is located on the cycleway between Whiby Darlington.

Harwich

Harwich and Dovercourt are two towns at the English Northsea coast. Travellers on the Northsea Cycle Way pass by, when they change from or to European Continent. This places are brilliant boring. One can walk around, watch sundown, sky, ships and sea.

Stromness - Scrabster

Checked the Northlink Timetable. The ferry is traveling three times a day between Stromness -which is Orkney - and Scrabster. So I cannot see any problem starting in Orkney in the morning and embark the Bergen ferry in Scrabster on time. Pic shows the northbound ferry to Stromness.

Cuxhaven -Helgoland

This is only a minor shipping route and offside the northsea cycle way. But it is more than worth to spent one day out in the nothern sea: Embark the Wappen of Hamburg in Cuxhaven and see the island of Helgoland. It is only a two hour crossing, so you will be back in your Hotel for dinner.

And: leave bike at home. Cycling is not allowed on the island. And due to Helgoland's tinyness you will find a bicycle usless. Usual thing to do on the island is to buy some taxfree Schnaps and ciggis, eat fish, walk around and let the wind blow around your nose.

Amsterdam - Newcastle

You are in a hurry to storm north? The lovely Princess of Norway charges some 150 Euro - the princess seems to be more expansive on weekends - to transport bicycle and you from the continent to Newcastle. Traveling to Newcastle mean, you will miss most of England, but there is plenty time left to check Edinburgh, Highlands and get onboard to Bergen @ 16th.

Check princess in the afternoon, leave her nextcoming morning after breakfast.

Ship on this pic is not princess of Norway - but King of Scandinavia himself.

Rotterdam - Hull

There are some more ferries on our way to chose from.

For example P&O is traveling from Rotterdam to Hull. Starting every night at nine, arriving Hull right in time for breakfast. Price for 1 person plus bicycle I paid around 100 Euro. As you can see on the picture from P&O, there is obiverously a smiling piano player onboard. It may be a pleasure to listen to some alltime greatest Beatle instrumentals, have a malt and chat with other holiday makers while you cut off half of England from your route. Next day you can start travling to Whitby, home of Captain Cook.

Rotterdam - Harwich

One more important northsea crossing: Ships are travellling two times a day between Rotterdam and Harwich. Stena Britannica says goodbye to Netherland at ten in the night - and Good Morning Britain at 6.30. Stena Hollandica leaves the port at a quarter to three - arrival is later than eight in the night.

Journey may be cheap - web says 30 Euro - but lack of service. As you see on the picture, there were mainly trucks onboard. I found it a good idea to ask for a cabin to have some private space onboard. As we traveled in January 2007 breakfast and dinner were included.

Arriving in Harwich International it is only a jump to Harwich center or to a small town named Dovercourt. Arriving in the night? I tend to say - no problem to find a bed to sleep in Harwich.

Aberdeen - Kirkwall

We will not travel Cycleway cross the Highlands. Seems to be a better concept to take ship from Aberdeen to Orkney. Northlink ferrys leaving Aberdeen harbour - which is near trainstation. North Sea Cycle Route is passing harbour, no problem to find ferry, I tend to say. Must check the times, arrival in Kirkwell is 23.00 h.

Ships travel from Aberdeen via Orkney to Shetland and back again. But as I understand, there is no way to continue the voyage cross the Northsea to Norway. Smyrill Line is taking you south to Danmark or north to Faroer.

Scotland - Bergen

Sickboy and me are searching for the essentials to travel around north sea: books, maps and bags. And we have actualy started with our bloq. Welcome here!

We are populating our team around us - a pig-god, a fish-monster and some additional monk.

As we are planning to travel clockwise around northsea, the most important point on the schedule is to reach ferry traveling between Scotland and Norway. Its essential to arrive at Scrabster there at July, 16th.

Missing the ship will mean to wait for two weeks in the highlands for the next passage to happen.