Boston has been covered in snow and the temperatures have been below zero for a couple of weeks now so my cycling has been limited to a couple of short trips to the supermarket. So what’s a bicycle tourist to do. Well there’s always planning for next summer. This usually involves lots of time spent with Google maps and cruising crazyguyonabike. Last year I went to England so for my next trip I decided I wanted to go somewhere a little more rugged and challenging. I don’t exactly know where the seed of the idea to tour in Iceland came from, but my research so far has confirmed that it will be interesting and challenging.
I’ve visited Reykjavik once, on one of those weekend “get aways”, but my experience is limited to a few bars and a bus trip around the geological wonders close to the capital. My summer trip will probably last 3 weeks and in that time I’ll try to ride the entire 850 miles of the Route 1 ring around Iceland. I’m not going to rough it too much as I’m going to stay in hotels where possible. It looks like the only place where this might be difficult is in East Iceland where there’s a stretch of 100km without services. I’ll be taking full camping equipment, even if I do manage to find hotels for every night, as I don’t want to risk beingwithout a tent and sleeping bag given the remoteness of where I’m going and Iceland’s changeable weather.
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