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Not exactly a "weekend ride" but last weekend I finished this ride, which I started the previous weekend, so that's a tenuous enough link for me.
Something like 520 miles over 7 days, on my own.
I had an almighty fuck up getting to Berlin in the first place, with Deutsche Bahn trying to make me go to Munich (but my bike go to Berlin), but I'm getting compensation.
There was one day of extreme mist and temperatures around 3 degrees. Then it became really sunny, and although it wasn't exactly warm I did take my kneewarmers and neoprene gloves off some of the time. It got dark pretty early and there were a few hairy moments, but nothing I didn't survive.
I absolutely loved it. Cycling in Germany is infinitely better than here (apart from when I got in a shouting match with a woman who wanted me to use the cycle path instead of the road - turns out she was (legally) correct). Cycling in the Netherlands is even better. This isn't news to anyone I'm sure, but it's just so lovely over there that it's worth saying again.
My top tips for a trip like this would be: don't go after the clocks change, spend more than 2 lunch breaks planning the route and buy a bell so that you don't get stuck behind slow cyclists on fietspads.
I tweeted about the trip throughout under the hashtag #hatsradtour and have written a blog about my trip, for anyone interested: http://lambonabike.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/hatsradtour/
Can't wait to go touring again next year!!