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Old 22 Mar 2024
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Denmark or Ireland?
Hi all,
I am in the UK and want to do a week's solo trip in June this year. Where should I go? Denmark or Ireland? Please help me decide.
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Which is better, chalk or cheese? Very different destinations and depends on your own preferences. I can only speak for Ireland out of the two, I did the Wild Atlantic Way last year and loved it. You can do that in a week but you may want to cut across a couple of the peninsulas, since if you follow the coastline all the way round it's quite a long way. Some of the more inland roads are gorgeous as well, notably the Wicklow Mountains.
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Which is better, chalk or cheese?
Fair enough. I should've made it clearer. I like mountains and twisties. I also like dry warm weather. From what I've been gleaning so far, Denmark seems to be warmer than Ireland in June.
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Fair enough. I should've made it clearer. I like mountains and twisties. I also like dry warm weather. From what I've been gleaning so far, Denmark seems to be warmer than Ireland in June.
You'll get plenty of mountains and twisties in Ireland! The weather is uncertain, of course, as you might expect from an island in the Atlantic

The answer of course, is do them both, you just need to decide which to do first
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Not Denmark
You will not find any mountains in Denmark.

The highest is around 170 m.
Nice temp: Yes
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From UK to Denmark you need at least a full day, maybe two days, each way to get there and back. That leaves not many days to enjoy the country. In other words: a weeks is too short to visit Denmark from UK in my opinion.
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Fair enough. I should've made it clearer. I like mountains and twisties. I also like dry warm weather. From what I've been gleaning so far, Denmark seems to be warmer than Ireland in June.
Denmark has no mountains and very few twisties (with low traffic): it is a small densely populated country with kind of a lot of agriculture. The countryside is usually quite manicured.

If you want it warm, and within a week, consider the ferry to Santander - loads of great riding in north Spain.
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If you want it warm, and within a week, consider the ferry to Santander - loads of great riding in north Spain.
I did wonder about suggesting northern Spain as the location ticks a lot of the boxes. The ferry ride is quite convenient (if a little pricy), although one downside might be the trip dates not meshing with the ferry schedules. it's the time it takes though - with only a week do you really want to spend three of those days on what's essentially a floating motorway services.
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Well from the UK to Denmark you would spend three days actually riding from one motorway services to the other! ????
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Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way. Definitely a great trip. I am lucky that I live on the Galway section.

If you decide and I am here, you are happy to call in for a coffee or sleep overnight.

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Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way. Definitely a great trip. I am lucky that I live on the Galway section.
I did the WAW last September and the Galway area was one of my favourite parts, though going from Kinsale I was starting to get a bit blasé by then... "Oh look, another stunning coastal vista" But the region was starting to get different from the area further south, a but more rugged and less inhabited. And I absolutely fell in love with Galway city
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