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Originally Posted by Warthog
For those of you in that position, if you want to do a bike trip (instead of jetting off on a plane), what are your tricks for making the most of that 2 or 3 week summer holiday?
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You still can jet off on a plane. Rental bikes are a thing in most places where you might want to ride. I've ridden rental bikes across New Zealand and North Vietnam, and those were great experiences.
The other option is to put your bike on a truck (using a commercial hauling service), ship it somewhere nice, then fly out to meet it at the start of your holiday.
In Europe, there are also options to skip long boring transit stages. E.g. from Estonia, I can use the Helsinki car train to get up to the Arctic overnight; a ferry from Helsinki or Liepaja/Ventspils to get to Northern Germany in about 24 hours; and the ÖBB Car Train to get from Hamburg or Düsseldorf to the Austrian mountains overnight. And when you compare to the cost of fuel, consumables, and hotels, then the vehicle-carrier trains and ferries are not a big expense.
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