C0mrie Croft hostel, Perthshire, Scotland.
Planning a mountain bike journey in Britain?
You’re in luck. The Independent Hostel Guide features lots of UK cheap sleeps – 300+ houses, cottages, camping barns and bunkhouses – many with overnight bike storage.
Each year, over 850,000 people stay at independent UK hostels, including walkers, ramblers and mountain bikers.
Are you an avid mountain biker in the U.K.? Then you might fancy a charity ride raising funds to help people affected by landmines.
Humanitarian landmine clearance charity MAG (Mines Advisory Group) has arranged a new two-wheel challenge in the U.K. for 2010.
Says Lesley Achim, MAG’s Events Officer:
“The routes this ride follows around the High Peak and the countryside is stunning, well worth the work it’ll take to get up some of those hills. The money you raise will help people living every day in the deadly shadow of landmines and other remnants of conflict. So, as you enjoy sailing down the hills, taking in the landscape, you can also relish the feeling of helping thousands of people far worse off than you all over the world.”
The event will start on Sunday, June 6,2010 in Buxton with participating riders taking on a 16, 30 or 55 mile challenge up hill and down dale.
Participants will cycle through scenic Derbyshire towns including Crowdecote, Goldstitch Moss and Bottom of the Oven. The tougher 55 mile route offers one of the county’s most famous cycle climbs, from Macclesfield Forest to the Cat and Fiddle Pub.
For more info on the event, check out MAG online.
Image courtesy of MAG.
The Tirol Tourist Board is searching for Britain’s Yodel Idol. That’s right, the Board is trying to get Brits to “cast off their reservations” and get yodelling.
Brits are invited to participate in the yodel-off by submitting their entry at www.yodeloff.co.uk for a chance to win a holiday to an Alpine mountain hut for themselves and five friends in August.
Yodelling originated as a way of communicating between the mountain valleys and developed into music and entertainment in Alpine regions across Austria and Switzerland.
Says Eckard Speckbacher, Tirol Tourist Board:
“We decided to celebrate yodelling and use it as a fun way to picture the beauty of our region. If you observe a yodeller’s voiceprint, you can compare it to the mountainous topography of the Tirol’s landscape as it gravitates from peak to peak.”
For more info, check out Visit Tirol.
Image courtesy of the Tirol Tourist Board.
After a lovely UK city break and staying at London hotels, you might fancy walking on the wild side of Scotland.
You can go eco-touring wild Scotland with eco-tour specialist Natural Habitat Adventures which offers carbon neutral trips worldwide.
The award-winning company has been named the 2009 Best Adventure Travel Company by National Geographic Adventure and 2009 World’s Best Tour Operator by Travel + Leisure.
For May 2010, Natural Habitat Adventures recommends its tour Scotland’s Wild Highlands & Islands where you’ll see “nesting seabirds of the remote Outer Hebrides to young wildlife in the boreal forest and heather moors with a journey so new it’s still ‘exploratory’.”
Read all its recommended 2010 Eco-Tours here.
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