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Ah good intel, thanks…
Yeah it seems like I can get French high speed trains up to Calais pretty much, then ferry then train the other side.
It'll take the majority of a day to do, but acquiring stuff to pack my bike in and faffing around in airports will probably require similar time and effort tbh.
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Yes, much more pleasant to sit on a train than traipse around shops.
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I've got the train from London to Nice, and back. This was back when you could take bikes in a bag onto the Eurostar, so train to Lille, literally cross the platform and get a train to Nice. Lille to Marseille takes no time at all, but the line from there to Nice is very slow.
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TCR4 - @scherrit and my missus came to the finish and we drove to Istanbul and flew back (after finish party)
TCR5 - Kalambaka finish, we took a bus to Athens to check it out then flew back (after finish party)
TCR6 - Kalambaka finish, took a bus to Thessaloniki to check it out and flew back (My finish times are consistent so, before finish party this time as I needed the holidays for other races)
TCR7 - Brest finish, @scherrit drove over and kindly took my bike home and I got fast trains home. I think because of knee dramas I was a day slower than expected so it was pretty much the day after I arrived I was on a train.
When I bailed half way on Transiberica last year I rode to a place with a train station, got hotel, trained back a bit, hotel, back a bit more, hotel, etc. and I bought casual clothes at an H&M. I donated the sandals but I still wear the undies and t-shirt :)
If it's another backwards routes I'd bag my bike up and use trains. If it finishes in Greece/Turkey/Bulgaria I'd fly back, booking a flight well after my expected finish time so as not to pressurise the ride.
Ah, if it's finishing in Nice, I'd not book the return until I arrived and I'd have a leisurely train trip back. It's much nicer than rushing to airports and shit.