cannot express how much i love watching your journeys. Everything the cycling, setting up camp, the food you cook and the appreciation of the areas you pass through, the buildings you explore. Thankyou so much.
Aw thank you for the lovely message Ann! glad you enjoy the films! Actually I just sat back here and watched all three of this journey myself haha, I enjoyed it too, nice to look back, and to dream of new trips to come! Happy New Year to you!
You are without a doubt a huge inspiration. Me, a male at 55 years wouldn't dare to do the things you do, all with a smile and good spirits. Awesome in every way.
It's raining cats and dogs and you go:"The sun is coming through...." That's the spirit. Your spirit. Again, Susanna, you made and amazing video of an amazing trip home. The poem at the end ...just beautiful. Thank you
Thank you Susanna for a beautiful series of films. I find your attitude to life very inspiring. The obvious joy you experience from the things you see and do, makes each journey you share a perfect antidote to the trials of daily life. I hope 2025 gives you lots of pleasure and adventure.
I absolutely love the films of your journeys. You are such an inspiration to me in that you make it seem doable, even for someone like me. Thank you also for the introduction to Blicher.
We absolutely love your videos. We always look forward to them. It’s always a special moment that we set aside time for. Kinda like a movie date ❤ it’s on our bucket list to get to Europe and do some bike trips of our own.
Hi Angela! aw thank you for the lovely comment! Glad you enjoy the videos! aw that is sweet, a movie date! hope you have had a good start to the year. Hope you'll be able to do some nice local rides there where you are too
Dear Susanna, the places you cross are beautiful, but the most beautiful thing about your videos is always your willingness to face difficulties, be they rain or cows... It's nice to see how in this way you can enjoy small and simple, but precious things. And the final poem is deep and touching. thank you for everything!
Aw Maurizio thank you for writing. Aw very mild and gentle difficulties, these on the road, just part of rolling along, so lucky, with time and freedom and health to do what I want. I am just grateful that I can do this at all. I saw a photo this morning actually, of me two years ago, and I was bald from chemo, and I was shocked to see myself like that with no hair! you forget dont you, in a way. Everyone has got things they are dealing with. And these little things, like riding in the rain, are not difficult at all really if you know what I mean. . Thank you for watching and for the lovely comment!
Hello! aw thank you. Yeah I was really lucky with the weather on that trip, doesnt really matter what happens on the last day does it! glad you enjoyed the film x
Hi Susanna! Today, I discovered the channel and your trip feels inspiring! I love your pretty Orange Bike. I will see more videos to learn more about bickepacking! I send you good vibes to continue with the trip. Regards from Montevideo, Uruguay (South America) 🇺🇾 Nacho
Hi Susanna .. i just finished watching the three videos of your trip from Sweden back to London .. another fantastic, wonderfully paced set of videos. It's always a pleasure to come along on your trips. Thank you for posting. Every Best Wish for 2025. Nigel, Belfast, Ireland.
a bit late to the party but I've been very busy so just catching up with my videos now 😊 Another wonderful adventure we've had the privilege to come along with you on Susanna! Can't wait to see where you end up in 2025!
A really interesting trip. Thank You Susanna - much appreciated. I have used it to push myself into thinking about my cycling and camping for 2025. Having decided there is life in the old dog yet - I collected my new tent today!! Now to plan what to do with it, where to go in Tassie for a camp and a ride. It's all your fault - in the best possible way!
Thank you Susanna, for these beautiful videos with so much inspiration about the joy, the appreciation of life💖 I love it, when you visit my country Denmark. I get to see again places I know and love, and how beautiful it all is. Sig nærmer tiden is one of my favourite poems/songs 😊thank you so much for sharing!💖💖
Dear Susanna! I too travelled from Germany through Hamburg and Flensburg to Denmark and your video just brings back such fond memories. Love your attitude. Love your channel!
Battled across Dartmoor (snow) and Bodmin moor (torrential rain) yesterday in my van to arrive in Truro where I’m working at the museum over the next couple of months. I just enjoyed your video drinking my morning coffee before work in the lodgings. So nice to see your lovely optimistic tour in mainly nice weather and light days. What a tonic for this dull old time of year where the land is totally scoured. i once tried painting in a field of cows… Big mistake! first they crowded round, blocking the view and then proceeded to lick all my kit. Not art lovers but certainly curious! Looking forward to your next tour. This one was great. X
Haha oh no that sounds like a tricky painting with the cows. Makes me feel better, in a way, about thinking cows might lick me! the thing was that friends of mine have had a lot of trouble with cows licking their parked car, and as soon as I saw the cows in that field I was thinking about that. And they are probably very nimble things but I imagined them stumbling in the guy lines etc... Glad you made it safely across the west country, crikey that sounded scary and hard. But two months in Truro sounds brilliant, esp working at the museum. I just found you on Insta. OMG so lovely what you do, those waves... and I love the axe heads! and of all the old buildings and street scapes... Happy New Year! looking forward to see what you do next too!
@ Ah, it’s a busy time indeed. Just driven to Oxford and back today too! Honestly, Susanna, I’ve not known as busy a time as this for ages. Anyway, thanks for your kind comments about the art work too. Much appreciated. X
What a marvelous trip,Susanna😲 i live mostly in Århus,a bit in Ålborg and my only transport is bike and train. If there's another trip thru Jutland for you,you might take the old 'hær-vejen' directly translated to 'army-road'... it's for hikers and bikers,with tent/bivy/tarp only,it goes from northern Germany to northern Jutland. There are quite a few cafe's/restaurant's and shelter/camping spaces/places along the route and no(NO) cars, lots of nature and kind/friendly people aswell! And plenty of sightings (church-museum-nature). Happy cikling,'break a bone' 🤗🇩🇰🚴
Thanks for writing Lars! The old 'hær-vejen' sounds great. I remember I saw an old bridge a year ago right in the south of Denmark which was part of that old road. It is very interesting how it goes all the way into Germany. I like the sound of those cafes too!
Wow Susanna - you did my country such an honor to visit like this, appreciate it and speak so kindly about it. Happy that you liked our beloved heavy “Rugbrød” (rye bread), only done right in DK and it tastes goooood. When Danes go abroad this is always what they long for the most 😄 As always I thoroughly enjoyed this journey along with you and I really want to go biking now!! And may I just say that I love your choice of music always - somehow you find simple songs that spreads exactly the right mood for your enjoyable rides. Thank you and all the best from Copenhagen! 🙏😃🇩🇰
Hello! aw thank you for the lovely comment. Thank you for having me! As you see, I really enjoyed visiting Denmark. Mmh, I really want to eat some tasty bread now haha. Happy New Year!
Susanna you are legend, i always look forward to your videos with the journeys, camps, the cook ups etc.. Happy new year and please spoil me with more great adventures for 2025..
Fantastic, to see Part3 of your epic journey, Susanna. Like so many have already said, the viewer becomes your companion through your trials, tribulations and joys. You must have a huge sense of personal accomplishment! What started for me as simply watching a fellow Bromptoneer, has now developed into sharing your own personal journey. Thank you, so much. Where to next?
Aw thank you for watching John, and for the lovely comment. Aw I don't know, it's nice of you to say so, but I don't think of these fun days out as an accomplishment, tbh! I feel more that it's a privilege - to have the time to do them, and the resources, and health, and freedom from caring responsibilities and all sorts of things like that. The older I get and the more I know, the more I realise it! if you want to do something and you can, then start now, do it now. And do it small, if small is what is feasible, dont wait for a big dream one day. Just start with what you have, and where you are... I think that's what I have the sense of... Oh, I'm getting all philosophical here! Happy New Year!
I’ve just watched your video - what a joy. Somehow, while immersed in the story, I forget that not only have you spent time looking for wild camp sites and the perfect bakery cafe, but you’ve also been spending time setting up shots and filming your journey and narrative along the way. It must take quite a bit of time, especially when you’re on a schedule to catch a train. Anyway, thank you. I’ve learnt a lot about how you use your Brompton for bike touring, and keep your set-up simple, but with a few luxuries that work for you - and would work well for me I suspect (Im thinking decent tent, trusty Trangia, seat and flask). Im guessing you spend the summer (or a chunk of it) with your husband in Scandinavia, and the winter in London. I could really relate to your “shock” of the transition from deep cycle touring to being propelled back into city life quickly. It’s quite an adjustment!
Hi Lou! thank you for the lovely comment! aw it's no big deal, cos I dont do any fancy shots that take a lot of time, eg no drone or anything. I just talk to the camera like it is a friend. Oh you put it brilliantly about a simple set-up plus a few luxuries - a fantastic tent, a Trangia with a decent set of pans so I can do proper cooking, a comfy seat, and a flask. And that is it, I am happy, more than happy. Thanks for writing!
Many thanks Susanna. I realy enjoy your simple trips. Your cooking always looks inviting too. Have great 2025 and hope your health continues to improve. Best Wishes, Colin
Susanna, Another wonderful adventure. I know, sometimes the perfect bakery can just make, or break, your day. And, ending with multiple train rides, perfect. This has been a terrific set of episodes, thank you so much. Peter
Hello Peter! Thanks for the lovely comment! Yeah bakeries loom quite large on cycling trips dont they haha. The trains worked well, lucky. It was kind of amazing to have breakfast at the German-Danish border, and then be pedalling home through the streets of London by the end of the day. I enjoyed that whole journey a lot. Glad you enjoyed the films! Thanks for watching! Next one coming soon! Happy New Year!
Thank you again for sharing your journeys which I always enjoy. THankyou also for introducing me to the beautiful words of Steen Steensen Blicher. Happy New year to you! I hope 2025 turns out to be a wonderful year for you.
Firstly, Happy New Year to you. All three videos were lovely and after seeing the camping spots available it's something other countries should consider. The weather here hasn't encouraged much cycling but Spring is on its way 👍, even if it doesn't seem like it today. Have you started to think of camping trips for 2025 or is it a bit too soon? Thank you for all the hours of entertainment your channel gives.
Hi Colin! thanks for writing! Aw feel like I am always thinking of cycling and camping trips haha. Thank you for watching and for writing such great comments this past year! Lots more films coming and hopefully lots more adventures, keep going!... Happy New Year to you too!
Thank you Susanna for a perfect start to the New Year. I always love how intrinsically honest, humble and inspirational your journeys are. I look forward to 2025!
Thankyou so much Susanna for this finale. All your videos have been amazing and my partner and I are looking forward to retracing your route thru Jutland this year.
Hi Tim! oh that sounds brilliant. There are hundreds of camp spots to try out, loads of really tempting ones... I wonder what the Jutland west coast would be like, someone on here said it is a whole different landscape... And there is the "old army road" that sounds great and very interesting... hope you have a brilliant time!
I for one, can totally relate to time lost searching for a bakery. Thank you for another really interesting, beautiful adventure. Best wishes for continued good health and happy travels in 2025. ❤
Hi Richella! aw thank you for your lovely comment, haha yeah I knew in my mind exactly what I was looking for, it just kind of took over. Maybe I have a bakery addiction. I realise that you volunteer with local wildlife organisations - me too, feel like we have loads in common, nice, not just the bakery thing haha!
Oooh, that was nice. I recognized bits of the roads south of Aarhus, where I have been cycling myself, around the same time you were there. Thanks for taking us on your adventure. It was brilliant, and I loved to come along, and see where you were cycling and camp. Looking forward to your adventures in 2025, and I hope you take us along again. Have a good 2025!
Fantastic film Susanna! Lord knows I watched and rewatched many of your videos over the holiday season hoping for a new one. I’m so happy that part 3 is uploaded.
Hello Spring Baby! thanks for watching! I was battling to get this finished in time before the end of Xmas and New Year, didnt quite manage that, but squeezed it in before the end of the weekend anyway! thanks so much for the lovely comment!
Susanna, I love your videos. You are so inspirational. We watch as an adult family. I hope one day to get my autistic son to enjoy cycling but he’s afraid of traffic
Hi Brenda! thanks for writing! Glad you guys enjoy the films, that is so nice. Working on the next one now! I hope your son can find a way of cycling or find some other outdoors activity that suits him and gives him pleasure
Moesgaard is a Museum with an absurd amount of iron-age weapons, from the famous "Illerup Find" in a Sacred Moor. An invading Army lost and paid the price and at least a part of their weapons naturally became sacrificed to the Holy Powers in the moor, for their help! We have many more Roman swords found in Denmark than in the rest of the Roman Empire at all, and far from all have been excavated, but are left to later times!! It is also the place to see one of the most famous and well-preserved Danish, Moor Bodies: "The Grauballe Man"! Finn. Denmark
Excellent adventure, your travels are awesome, and you are so inspiring. I love cycling, but I'm too ill to get back in the saddle at the moment. Looking forward to seeing your next adventure.
Very entertaining Susanna! I loved following the last leg of your journey from my cosy sofa. There should be an app for nice bakeries - I’m always searching for them too! I can’t fault you on the bottomless biscuits, and thank goodness you survived the night without being licked by cows 😂😂😂. Looking forward to your next adventure, and Happy New Year!
Hi Lynne!! thanks for the comment! haha yeah the bottomless biscuits, what a joy, it was so nice knowing that I had an whole extra packet in hand that day haha. Happy New Year to you too, loads of happy cycling miles and tailwinds and sunshine!
Hi Susanna, another great video, looks like you got a little wet on the last day of the tour. Glad you got home safely, you always make it look so easy, but I know it can't always be so, 😊. Looking forward to your next video. Kind regards, Neil.
Love your video on Scandinavia. Thank you Sussana for given a view of the simple life, happy life, life.on a bicycle. Wishing you a new year filled with epic bike trails and scenic views.
What a treat to feel like I’m travelling along with you in Dk. I just wish I could “plug” into your skill set & wisdom ..add a pinch of courage...the same way you charge your devices..ha ha. The photography and music was just lovely and your joy at enjoying your adventure was inspiring. What a lovely NYears gift to give us! The overhead fan is on, the kookaburras are heralding in the day, it’s summer & 20c here in Oz. Tourist time, we are over run! Stay well dear Susannah. ... here is 🥂🥂 to a wonderful 2025 filled with more adventures, good health, and selfishly more videos.
Hi Carol! aw thank you for writing such a lovely comment. Silly of me but it is hard to imagine that it is summer with you there... hope you have a lovely day! It is raining and cold here right now. Quite kind of cosy listening to it.. Best wishes for 2025!
Happy New Year Susanna. It made my day to see that you have released another video and this one completing your journey home. I’m now looking forward to watching them all together. I’d have been worrying about those cows too, though I’m not sure I’d have been brave enough to be there in the first place. Thank you, as always, for taking the time to record your trip, allowing us all to join you on your adventure. The scenery is stunning and for some reason I always fancy a pancake when I’ve finished watching. Wishing you many more fantastic adventures through 2025.
Hi Sharon! thanks for watching! glad you liked it! it was hard to know with those cows,,,, I reckoned once it was dark and they couldnt see me, I would be fine. Often when I am camping I find that darkness is really a friend, can relax, safely hidden. Two sides to everything. I watched all three films together myself last night, haha, nice! I love having the films to remember things I have done and go over it again. Wishing you happy new year! with lots of pancakes!
Always a pleasure to be on a journey with you! Now I am thinking about buying a brompton thow I have a good touring bike. But travelling in train and bus is difficult with a normal bike and limits my options.
Hello! oh that is exactly how I was.. I had always used big-wheel regular bikes for touring too, and always had the hassle of how to combine with public transport - trains sometimes doable, but often a hassle, needing to book etc etc. Buses out of the question. I discovered that a Brompton is a fantastic solution and opens up such a lot of nice options, to combine with train and bus etc. I love it.
@susannathornton Now you convinced me to get me a Brompton. I will try to find a second-hand one. What do you think about the new 20" Bromptons with disc brake? Coud be a good solution with bigger wheels, but packing size is also larger. Woud you go for the bigger wheels if you woud buy a Brompton now?
@@robingood62 it's tricky isnt it... yeah I have heard they are a nice ride. But the current Brompton a really nice ride already! If the 20 inch with mudguards had much better clearances than the standard, that would be kind of interesting cos that would open up the chance to ride on sticky muddy tracks more easily. Sticky mud quickly blocks the rear wheel of the standard Brompton with mudguards. But the pack size, yeh that is a big deal for me. It is critical for me that I can put bike into small spaces, eg in the boot of a little car, or under my feet like I did on the Deutsche Bahn train in this film.. so safe, and noone can complain about it. On another journey (coming soon!) I took a European sleeper train (film coming soon....!), which was the first time I tried that, and when I got on board with my folded Brompton and bags, I was worried that the folded bike wouldnt fit anywhere. I was in the cheap 6 bed couchette and it is quite cramped, not a lot of luggage space. But it went under the bottom bunk perfeclty. I could just slide it under. Hope you can try both maybe. Dad has recently bought a Decathlon 20 inch folder, and it is a lovely bike. We both like it. A very nice ride. But when folded, the bike is basically massive...
@susannathornton Dear Susanna, thank you for your advice this helps me a lot! Pack size is key, so I go for a standard Brompton with 6 gears and rack. Wish me luck to find a good one.
hi Susanna I enjoy watching your travels on your Brompton, keep making them. I have a C line six speed Brompton myself and have got it for two years but have only done about 300 plus miles on it. Today I checked wear on my chain as I just bought a chain wear tool and was surprised to see that my chain needs changed as the chain wear tool went strait through the.075 setting which probably means replacing the two rear sprockets and probably the front chain ring. as well. I would be interested to know how often you would change your chain and how many miles would you expect to get from your chain as you do long journeys . Look forward to hearing your reply. Many thanks in advance, Sammy
Hi Samuel! thanks for watching! sounds nice that you have a Brompton. About chains, well, I change the chain on my Brompton only when it is really worn out and baggy, so that I can kind of lift it off the chainring, and when riding in the wet especially feel it grinding a bit on the chainring teeth... The thing is, A I am lazy! and B my 3-speed Brompton has a single steel chainring, which is cheap, a steel single rear sprocket, also cheap. I am not doing high performance riding, wanting silky smooth gear changes etc. On my Brompton, just touring, tootling around. So on my Brompton, I look after the chain - ie clean sand etc off, oil it regularly, eg always take oil with me on a tour - but I completely wear the chain and the whole drive train out. Then I just replace the whole lot - chain, chainring, and sprocket. It doesnt cost much to replace the whole lot. There is a theoretical risk that an old chain snaps, but it is highly unlikely - I have snapped one chain once in about 40 years, and that was on a derailleur road bike where the chain is moving a lot more, eg side to side, both front and back. On a fancy road bike, I did things differently, cos the drivetrain components - multi speed cassette, multi chainrings - even if not top of the range are much more expensive than my simple Brompton set up. A worn chain damages these expensive items, so I'd change the chain (which is relatively cheap) before it got worn and damaged the other components. Hope that helps??!! Best wishes!
So glad to see this final part of the home from Sweden trilogy. Thank you for all the effort you put in to include us in your adventures. You always inspire me to be braver (although I think I would have moved the tent away from those cows ).
Hello Jo! Aw thank *you* for coming along! I really appreciate it when people take the trouble to write. When i started the channel I hardly ever met anyone who thought the things that I enjoy doing, like heading off alone on a bike with a tent, could possibly be enjoyable haha - but now I know I meet likeminded people on here all the time, so nice! Aw yeah those cows... thank goodness it was going dark. I am super wary of cows. I just imagined them getting all tangled up and tripping over the guy ropes and ripping the tent. And some friends who live in the countryside have had trouble with cows licking their parked car. I was thinking about that! Glad this time it all worked out without any trouble. WIshing you lots of trouble free adventures in 2025! Happy New Year!
@susannathornton Happy New Year and new adventures to you, too. Back to the cows and night visitors, camping in the New Forest last year, I could hear a pony munching very close to my tent in the early hours. That didn't promote peaceful sleep.
Another awesome trip. Your a inspiration, I will be riding my bikes as much as possible this year. I did try a Brompton but I still found my Birdy a better ride, can't beat the Brompton folds though, the Birdy is a close second.
Hi Marcus, right let's go for it me too. Your Birdy sounds great. I just read the Cycling UK review, and comparison of Brompton and Birdy. I had not paid attention to Birdys before actually. Each bike is a different set of compromises isnt it, w its own pros and cons... and of course people are all different too, height and weight etc so there is no one right bike. Yeah I agree the small fold size of the little Brompton is a fantastic thing. When I put my bike under a train seat and it actually fits or in the back of someone's little car and it goes snugly in and you can close the boot without doing anything I think oh god I love this thing
@susannathornton yeah both great bikes at similar price points. Yours has served you well many a mile. Looking forward to your next adventure, will have to film mine also, but probably not as good as trip as you do!
Thanks Susanna for another great video. I must admit you did get me worried about those Cows but it all went ok. Hopefully for now you are tucked up safe indoors given the cold weather we have but Spring will soon be here and we can live rather than survive again. Best wishes to you and your husband for 2025.
Loving your content, Susanna! I really like how you look into there history of some of the places you visit and are able to not only entertain your audience, but educate us as well. One thing that I'm interested in is how you go about filming your trips. What cameras do you use? Do you have a separate microphone?
Hi Jim! aw thank you for the lovely comment. Glad you enjoy the films. About how I film, I sometimes film using my phone, which is a google pixel, but mainly use a Gopro Hero Black 9. When I started, I had a Gopro Hero 7. It had poor sound quality and poor stabilisation. The 9 is hugely better than the 7. I shoot in 1080p resolution. About sound, I use the sound from the Gopro. I use a windslayer spongy housing on the Gopro to keep the wind noise down. I dont have a separate microphone. It is quite tricky on the road keeping it all going and setting things up, and I dont want any more bits like extra microphone to faff with unless they seem to me really worth it. I am a kind of make do person. And at the limit managing the set up I have got! Hope that helps! thank you for watching! Best wishes!
@@susannathornton That's extremely helpful, Susanna! I think you're doing a brilliant job with that minimal setup. A couple of follow up questions if you don't mind - do you use a mount for the GoPro and lastly, what editing software do you use?
HI Susanna: What a lovely ride through southern Denmark! I think that was an electric wire to prevent the cows from wandering into your last campsite? Steen Steensen Blicher's "Birds of Passage" is a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing another wonderful Brompton cycling adventure. Happy New Year 🚴🌍☮2025
Happy New Year. Just looked it up, there are 9 bakeries in Horsens. 🙂 You should have asked someone. Maybe us Danes are weird, but we will always help. We are taught that from childhood. We must help each other, nobody can do everything. I am glad you took the eastern route down through Jylland. The western one is rougher and way more windy, a completely different landscape, like being in another country. Nice to see you had a good trip. I have a feeling you like biking in DK. Remember, if it is a state forest, you don't have to camp a the shelters, you can wild camp like in Sweden. But only State forests. Hope you will visit again, I like to see you cycling in my country.
Hi Gert! Happy New Year to you too! Aw yeh I got myself in a tizzy in Horsens, unnecessarily! I went round and round in circles in the city cetnre looking for a bakery on a street I could see on google maps, but I couldnt find it, realised later the bakery must have been inside a covered shopping mall type place actually, and that was why I couldnt find it. Silly, yeh I should have asked. I was hungry and spent ages trying to find just that one cafe. Then just felt kind of frustrated with myself. Everyone I met was kind and helpful. I didn't include everyone I met in the film for various reasons. eg I met a really lovely woman one evening, also camping, close to her home for one night, having a break from her family, getting some fresh air and space. It is a lovely thing you guys do, maintaining, and using the primitive camping network. The woman I met didn't consider what she was doing to be unusual. How lovely is that. By the way, is Steen Steensen Blicher a writer people read these days in Denmark? I saw that his stories etc are in school books. I thought it was surprising that his work hasnt been much translated into English, or into Swedish either. I haven't tried reading the short novels. I think his Birds of Passage poems are lovely. Anyway, thank you for writing! Wishing you a very good year in 2025!
@@susannathornton I don't think Steen Steensen Blicher is much read nowadays. I have never read him. When I went to school (60s and 70s) we didn't cover him. I have heard he's name, maybe from my grandma, she came from that area, and she read all sorts of writers. I might also heard about him in other ways. Have you read Karen Blixen? Her life, or at least part of her life, was portrayed in a film, with Meryl Streep as Karen. Movie is called Out of Africa.
Love your videos Susanna, you truly seem like a wonderful human.! What do you make of the G Line for your ventures, will you be investing or are they too heavy and unnecessary I wonder ?
You are such a inspiration. Thank you so much. I want to try it this year. But I am a little bit scared because of the brakes and going down steep hills with this brakes. Most areas have hills. And it does not feel comfortable for longer distances with these handlebares . On your green, old brompton you had butterfly handlebars. Now you don't. Is there any reason for it? Maybe these handlebars could be an option for me so my body comes a little bit higher and straighter? My handlebar is the M size. Lots of greetings from the south of Germany
Hi Katja! thanks for writing! Hope you can get out and enjoy riding your bike this year! If you are worried about your brakes, I suggest you take the bike to a bike shop, and ask them to give the bike a check. If the brakes are set up properly, there's no need to be scared. Ask the mechanics to tell you which is the front brake and which is the back brake. Use the back brake more when you're cycling. Practise going down a few hills. Take it at your own pace. You dont need to go fast if you dont want to. Then you'll feel more confident, and off you go... exploring the world!
cannot express how much i love watching your journeys. Everything the cycling, setting up camp, the food you cook and the appreciation of the areas you pass through, the buildings you explore. Thankyou so much.
Aw thank you for the lovely message Ann! glad you enjoy the films! Actually I just sat back here and watched all three of this journey myself haha, I enjoyed it too, nice to look back, and to dream of new trips to come! Happy New Year to you!
You have saved me writing a review I could not agree more.
Wonderful journey absolutely love watching Susann s adventures, all the very best to you.
You are without a doubt a huge inspiration. Me, a male at 55 years wouldn't dare to do the things you do, all with a smile and good spirits. Awesome in every way.
You reminded me that there is still hope in life.Thank you.Take care of yourself
It's raining cats and dogs and you go:"The sun is coming through...." That's the spirit. Your spirit. Again, Susanna, you made and amazing video of an amazing trip home. The poem at the end ...just beautiful. Thank you
Thank you so much for the lovely comment. I loved that poem too
Thank you Susanna for a beautiful series of films. I find your attitude to life very inspiring. The obvious joy you experience from the things you see and do, makes each journey you share a perfect antidote to the trials of daily life. I hope 2025 gives you lots of pleasure and adventure.
Hello my beautiful Susanna! Thanks❤️ From Cucuta city Colombia 🇨🇴 South America
I absolutely love the films of your journeys. You are such an inspiration to me in that you make it seem doable, even for someone like me. Thank you also for the introduction to Blicher.
We absolutely love your videos. We always look forward to them. It’s always a special moment that we set aside time for. Kinda like a movie date ❤ it’s on our bucket list to get to Europe and do some bike trips of our own.
Hi Angela! aw thank you for the lovely comment! Glad you enjoy the videos! aw that is sweet, a movie date! hope you have had a good start to the year. Hope you'll be able to do some nice local rides there where you are too
Dear Susanna, the places you cross are beautiful, but the most beautiful thing about your videos is always your willingness to face difficulties, be they rain or cows... It's nice to see how in this way you can enjoy small and simple, but precious things. And the final poem is deep and touching. thank you for everything!
Aw Maurizio thank you for writing. Aw very mild and gentle difficulties, these on the road, just part of rolling along, so lucky, with time and freedom and health to do what I want. I am just grateful that I can do this at all. I saw a photo this morning actually, of me two years ago, and I was bald from chemo, and I was shocked to see myself like that with no hair! you forget dont you, in a way. Everyone has got things they are dealing with. And these little things, like riding in the rain, are not difficult at all really if you know what I mean. . Thank you for watching and for the lovely comment!
Apart from the heavy rain on the way to the train, you’ve been blessed again with the weather on this tour. Thank you for the wonderful poetry. ❤
Hello! aw thank you. Yeah I was really lucky with the weather on that trip, doesnt really matter what happens on the last day does it! glad you enjoyed the film x
Hi Susanna! Today, I discovered the channel and your trip feels inspiring!
I love your pretty Orange Bike. I will see more videos to learn more about bickepacking! I send you good vibes to continue with the trip.
Regards from Montevideo, Uruguay (South America) 🇺🇾
Nacho
Hi Susanna .. i just finished watching the three videos of your trip from Sweden back to London .. another fantastic, wonderfully paced set of videos. It's always a pleasure to come along on your trips. Thank you for posting. Every Best Wish for 2025. Nigel, Belfast, Ireland.
Hi Nigel! aw glad you enjoyed them! Best wishes for 2025 to you too!
a bit late to the party but I've been very busy so just catching up with my videos now 😊 Another wonderful adventure we've had the privilege to come along with you on Susanna! Can't wait to see where you end up in 2025!
A really interesting trip. Thank You Susanna - much appreciated. I have used it to push myself into thinking about my cycling and camping for 2025. Having decided there is life in the old dog yet - I collected my new tent today!! Now to plan what to do with it, where to go in Tassie for a camp and a ride. It's all your fault - in the best possible way!
Hi Ant! oh that sounds great, very exciting with a new tent and new plans! happy new year!
As you say “ BRILLIANT!”. Thanks for sharing the adventure.
Thanks for sharing your journeys, I love watching them.
😂 Susanna u are so strong, brave and capable. Good on you, so very happy for you. Love every moment of your adventures 💕 😊
Thank you Susanna, for these beautiful videos with so much inspiration about the joy, the appreciation of life💖 I love it, when you visit my country Denmark. I get to see again places I know and love, and how beautiful it all is. Sig nærmer tiden is one of my favourite poems/songs 😊thank you so much for sharing!💖💖
That was a fantastic adventure Susanna. Thank you so much for sharing it with us 😊
Dear Susanna! I too travelled from Germany through Hamburg and Flensburg to Denmark and your video just brings back such fond memories. Love your attitude. Love your channel!
Battled across Dartmoor (snow) and Bodmin moor (torrential rain) yesterday in my van to arrive in Truro where I’m working at the museum over the next couple of months. I just enjoyed your video drinking my morning coffee before work in the lodgings. So nice to see your lovely optimistic tour in mainly nice weather and light days. What a tonic for this dull old time of year where the land is totally scoured. i once tried painting in a field of cows… Big mistake! first they crowded round, blocking the view and then proceeded to lick all my kit. Not art lovers but certainly curious! Looking forward to your next tour. This one was great. X
Haha oh no that sounds like a tricky painting with the cows. Makes me feel better, in a way, about thinking cows might lick me! the thing was that friends of mine have had a lot of trouble with cows licking their parked car, and as soon as I saw the cows in that field I was thinking about that. And they are probably very nimble things but I imagined them stumbling in the guy lines etc... Glad you made it safely across the west country, crikey that sounded scary and hard. But two months in Truro sounds brilliant, esp working at the museum. I just found you on Insta. OMG so lovely what you do, those waves... and I love the axe heads! and of all the old buildings and street scapes... Happy New Year! looking forward to see what you do next too!
@ Ah, it’s a busy time indeed. Just driven to Oxford and back today too! Honestly, Susanna, I’ve not known as busy a time as this for ages. Anyway, thanks for your kind comments about the art work too. Much appreciated. X
What a marvelous trip,Susanna😲 i live mostly in Århus,a bit in Ålborg and my only transport is bike and train. If there's another trip thru Jutland for you,you might take the old 'hær-vejen' directly translated to 'army-road'... it's for hikers and bikers,with tent/bivy/tarp only,it goes from northern Germany to northern Jutland. There are quite a few cafe's/restaurant's and shelter/camping spaces/places along the route and no(NO) cars, lots of nature and kind/friendly people aswell! And plenty of sightings (church-museum-nature).
Happy cikling,'break a bone' 🤗🇩🇰🚴
Thanks for writing Lars! The old 'hær-vejen' sounds great. I remember I saw an old bridge a year ago right in the south of Denmark which was part of that old road. It is very interesting how it goes all the way into Germany. I like the sound of those cafes too!
Wow Susanna - you did my country such an honor to visit like this, appreciate it and speak so kindly about it. Happy that you liked our beloved heavy “Rugbrød” (rye bread), only done right in DK and it tastes goooood. When Danes go abroad this is always what they long for the most 😄
As always I thoroughly enjoyed this journey along with you and I really want to go biking now!! And may I just say that I love your choice of music always - somehow you find simple songs that spreads exactly the right mood for your enjoyable rides. Thank you and all the best from Copenhagen! 🙏😃🇩🇰
Hello! aw thank you for the lovely comment. Thank you for having me! As you see, I really enjoyed visiting Denmark. Mmh, I really want to eat some tasty bread now haha. Happy New Year!
Hello, Suzanne! It is very nice to make sure that you are in good health and "on the horse" :) I am your new subscriber, greetings from Russia.
@@cepreu_notanob Welcome! Thank you for writing and subscribing! Yes I'm doing ok, still on the horse! What a nice expression, best wishes! X
Susanna you are legend, i always look forward to your videos with the journeys, camps, the cook ups etc.. Happy new year and please spoil me with more great adventures for 2025..
Another wonderful adventure and I thank you for sharing it with us all!! Beautiful! Kerry in the way up North West of Wisconsin, US
Thanks Kerry! best wishes!
Fantastic, to see Part3 of your epic journey, Susanna. Like so many have already said, the viewer becomes your companion through your trials, tribulations and joys. You must have a huge sense of personal accomplishment! What started for me as simply watching a fellow Bromptoneer, has now developed into sharing your own personal journey.
Thank you, so much. Where to next?
Aw thank you for watching John, and for the lovely comment. Aw I don't know, it's nice of you to say so, but I don't think of these fun days out as an accomplishment, tbh! I feel more that it's a privilege - to have the time to do them, and the resources, and health, and freedom from caring responsibilities and all sorts of things like that. The older I get and the more I know, the more I realise it! if you want to do something and you can, then start now, do it now. And do it small, if small is what is feasible, dont wait for a big dream one day. Just start with what you have, and where you are... I think that's what I have the sense of... Oh, I'm getting all philosophical here! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Susanna, may it bring you health, happiness and many more wonderful cycling journeys 💕
Hi Eva! aw thank you for the lovely message! wishing you health and happiness and may all your wishes come true too!
I’ve just watched your video - what a joy. Somehow, while immersed in the story, I forget that not only have you spent time looking for wild camp sites and the perfect bakery cafe, but you’ve also been spending time setting up shots and filming your journey and narrative along the way. It must take quite a bit of time, especially when you’re on a schedule to catch a train.
Anyway, thank you.
I’ve learnt a lot about how you use your Brompton for bike touring, and keep your set-up simple, but with a few luxuries that work for you - and would work well for me I suspect (Im thinking decent tent, trusty Trangia, seat and flask).
Im guessing you spend the summer (or a chunk of it) with your husband in Scandinavia, and the winter in London.
I could really relate to your “shock” of the transition from deep cycle touring to being propelled back into city life quickly. It’s quite an adjustment!
Hi Lou! thank you for the lovely comment! aw it's no big deal, cos I dont do any fancy shots that take a lot of time, eg no drone or anything. I just talk to the camera like it is a friend. Oh you put it brilliantly about a simple set-up plus a few luxuries - a fantastic tent, a Trangia with a decent set of pans so I can do proper cooking, a comfy seat, and a flask. And that is it, I am happy, more than happy. Thanks for writing!
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for making and sharing. 🙏
Thank you for taking us along again Susanna, I feel like I’ve cycled the route too!
Wishing you a very happy, healthy 2025, bless you 🤗
Another great video Susanna, thank you for making it and sharing your journey.
Many thanks Susanna.
I realy enjoy your simple trips.
Your cooking always looks inviting too.
Have great 2025 and hope your health continues to improve.
Best Wishes, Colin
Hi Colin! thank you for the lovely comment! glad you enjoy the films! Happy New Year to you too! it is not too late to say it, is it
Susanna,
Another wonderful adventure.
I know, sometimes the perfect bakery can just make, or break, your day.
And, ending with multiple train rides, perfect.
This has been a terrific set of episodes, thank you so much.
Peter
Absolutely brilliant 👍👍👍 thanks so much for posting 😊
Hello Peter! Thanks for the lovely comment! Yeah bakeries loom quite large on cycling trips dont they haha. The trains worked well, lucky. It was kind of amazing to have breakfast at the German-Danish border, and then be pedalling home through the streets of London by the end of the day. I enjoyed that whole journey a lot. Glad you enjoyed the films! Thanks for watching! Next one coming soon! Happy New Year!
Thank you again for sharing your journeys which I always enjoy. THankyou also for introducing me to the beautiful words of Steen Steensen Blicher. Happy New year to you! I hope 2025 turns out to be a wonderful year for you.
Firstly, Happy New Year to you.
All three videos were lovely and after seeing the camping spots available it's something other countries should consider.
The weather here hasn't encouraged much cycling but Spring is on its way 👍, even if it doesn't seem like it today.
Have you started to think of camping trips for 2025 or is it a bit too soon?
Thank you for all the hours of entertainment your channel gives.
Hi Colin! thanks for writing! Aw feel like I am always thinking of cycling and camping trips haha. Thank you for watching and for writing such great comments this past year! Lots more films coming and hopefully lots more adventures, keep going!... Happy New Year to you too!
I absolutely love your videos - thanks so much for taking the time to make them. They are a real treat x
You are so wonderful 😊 Happy New Year 2025 Susanna ❤ thank you for sharing with us xx
Thank you Susanna for a perfect start to the New Year. I always love how intrinsically honest, humble and inspirational your journeys are. I look forward to 2025!
Maravillosa Susana, he disfrutado cada km... gracias.
Love watching your adventure in Denmark 😊😊😊 Wish you a happy new year full of great adventures 😊😊😊
Thankyou so much Susanna for this finale. All your videos have been amazing and my partner and I are looking forward to retracing your route thru Jutland this year.
Hi Tim! oh that sounds brilliant. There are hundreds of camp spots to try out, loads of really tempting ones... I wonder what the Jutland west coast would be like, someone on here said it is a whole different landscape... And there is the "old army road" that sounds great and very interesting... hope you have a brilliant time!
I for one, can totally relate to time lost searching for a bakery. Thank you for another really interesting, beautiful adventure. Best wishes for continued good health and happy travels in 2025. ❤
Hi Richella! aw thank you for your lovely comment, haha yeah I knew in my mind exactly what I was looking for, it just kind of took over. Maybe I have a bakery addiction. I realise that you volunteer with local wildlife organisations - me too, feel like we have loads in common, nice, not just the bakery thing haha!
@susannathornton Yes I think we'd get along grand. x
Oooh, that was nice. I recognized bits of the roads south of Aarhus, where I have been cycling myself, around the same time you were there. Thanks for taking us on your adventure. It was brilliant, and I loved to come along, and see where you were cycling and camp. Looking forward to your adventures in 2025, and I hope you take us along again. Have a good 2025!
Hi Ineke! thanks for watching and for the lovely message! Happy cycling and happy new year generally to you too!
A wonderful video. Thank you so much. You are definitely an inspiration of any distance Brompton cycling.
Brilliant as always.
Fantastic film Susanna! Lord knows I watched and rewatched many of your videos over the holiday season hoping for a new one. I’m so happy that part 3 is uploaded.
Hello Spring Baby! thanks for watching! I was battling to get this finished in time before the end of Xmas and New Year, didnt quite manage that, but squeezed it in before the end of the weekend anyway! thanks so much for the lovely comment!
Nice to hear from you again! I wish you a really good year 2025🚴🌞
Susanna, I love your videos. You are so inspirational. We watch as an adult family. I hope one day to get my autistic son to enjoy cycling but he’s afraid of traffic
Hi Brenda! thanks for writing! Glad you guys enjoy the films, that is so nice. Working on the next one now! I hope your son can find a way of cycling or find some other outdoors activity that suits him and gives him pleasure
@@susannathornton we are looking forward to the next video. I can’t wait to get a short camp out in. Hopefully won’t be too long
So nice to c another beautiful trip and ur happy face. Hv a wonderful year.
Lovely, another instalment.🥰
Moesgaard is a Museum with an absurd amount of iron-age weapons, from the famous "Illerup Find" in a Sacred Moor. An invading Army lost and paid the price and at least a part of their weapons naturally became sacrificed to the Holy Powers in the moor, for their help! We have many more Roman swords found in Denmark than in the rest of the Roman Empire at all, and far from all have been excavated, but are left to later times!! It is also the place to see one of the most famous and well-preserved Danish, Moor Bodies: "The Grauballe Man"! Finn. Denmark
Another lovely trip. Thanks for sharing and have a good new year. I look forward to your 2025 adventures.
Thanks Ian!
Glad you made it home safely, lovely trip
Happy New Year Susanna. I hope you have plans for more trips this year. I love your videos.
Excellent adventure, your travels are awesome, and you are so inspiring. I love cycling, but I'm too ill to get back in the saddle at the moment. Looking forward to seeing your next adventure.
Hello Richard! Thank you for watching, and for the lovely comment! I hope you are feeling better soon and out on the bike enjoying it again soon x
Verry inspirational, I'm planning my first bikepacking trip this summer and watching these videos is great fun
Very entertaining Susanna! I loved following the last leg of your journey from my cosy sofa. There should be an app for nice bakeries - I’m always searching for them too! I can’t fault you on the bottomless biscuits, and thank goodness you survived the night without being licked by cows 😂😂😂. Looking forward to your next adventure, and Happy New Year!
Hi Lynne!! thanks for the comment! haha yeah the bottomless biscuits, what a joy, it was so nice knowing that I had an whole extra packet in hand that day haha. Happy New Year to you too, loads of happy cycling miles and tailwinds and sunshine!
Hi Susanna, another great video, looks like you got a little wet on the last day of the tour. Glad you got home safely, you always make it look so easy, but I know it can't always be so, 😊. Looking forward to your next video.
Kind regards, Neil.
Wow that was beautiful to watch. Lately I'm seeing a lot of Denmark on RUclips and I hadn't realised how beautiful it is. I loved the poem too.
Another brilliant video . The scenery was fabulous. Thanks for taking us along with you😀👍
Wishing you all the best for the new year...
At your last camp you were very near that electric fence wire! Brave woman.
Such a nice film. Thankyou.
Love your video on Scandinavia. Thank you Sussana for given a view of the simple life, happy life, life.on a bicycle. Wishing you a new year filled with epic bike trails and scenic views.
What a treat to feel like I’m travelling along with you in Dk. I just wish I could “plug” into your skill set & wisdom ..add a pinch of courage...the same way you charge your devices..ha ha. The photography and music was just lovely and your joy at enjoying your adventure was inspiring.
What a lovely NYears gift to give us!
The overhead fan is on, the kookaburras are heralding in the day, it’s summer & 20c here in Oz. Tourist time, we are over run!
Stay well dear Susannah. ... here is 🥂🥂 to a wonderful 2025 filled with more adventures, good health, and selfishly more videos.
Hi Carol! aw thank you for writing such a lovely comment. Silly of me but it is hard to imagine that it is summer with you there... hope you have a lovely day! It is raining and cold here right now. Quite kind of cosy listening to it.. Best wishes for 2025!
Happy New Year Susanna. It made my day to see that you have released another video and this one completing your journey home. I’m now looking forward to watching them all together. I’d have been worrying about those cows too, though I’m not sure I’d have been brave enough to be there in the first place. Thank you, as always, for taking the time to record your trip, allowing us all to join you on your adventure. The scenery is stunning and for some reason I always fancy a pancake when I’ve finished watching. Wishing you many more fantastic adventures through 2025.
Hi Sharon! thanks for watching! glad you liked it! it was hard to know with those cows,,,, I reckoned once it was dark and they couldnt see me, I would be fine. Often when I am camping I find that darkness is really a friend, can relax, safely hidden. Two sides to everything. I watched all three films together myself last night, haha, nice! I love having the films to remember things I have done and go over it again. Wishing you happy new year! with lots of pancakes!
Love your videos Denmark very cycle freindly must be a challenhe when back in the UK x
Hi Suzanna, happy New year.great to see a video so early in the year!thank for all the joyful times in 2024.inspirational as ever.❤
Enchanting scenery, thank you for taking the time to make this video for us. It has been a lovely series. Keep well, and happy New Year.
Good to start the year with another of your videos, I enjoy them all, it's very impressive what you achieve.
Absolutely love your videos, you are my inspiration. that poem/song at the end is beautiful, thank you for sharing what you love
Thank you for watching and for the lovely comment oma opa!
Well done Susanna thanks for the vid. Highly enjoyable, look after yourself. Rooting for you.
Very nice
Breathtaking scenery. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful!
Always a pleasure to be on a journey with you! Now I am thinking about buying a brompton thow I have a good touring bike. But travelling in train and bus is difficult with a normal bike and limits my options.
Hello! oh that is exactly how I was.. I had always used big-wheel regular bikes for touring too, and always had the hassle of how to combine with public transport - trains sometimes doable, but often a hassle, needing to book etc etc. Buses out of the question. I discovered that a Brompton is a fantastic solution and opens up such a lot of nice options, to combine with train and bus etc. I love it.
@susannathornton
Now you convinced me to get me a Brompton. I will try to find a second-hand one. What do you think about the new 20" Bromptons with disc brake? Coud be a good solution with bigger wheels, but packing size is also larger. Woud you go for the bigger wheels if you woud buy a Brompton now?
@@robingood62 it's tricky isnt it... yeah I have heard they are a nice ride. But the current Brompton a really nice ride already! If the 20 inch with mudguards had much better clearances than the standard, that would be kind of interesting cos that would open up the chance to ride on sticky muddy tracks more easily. Sticky mud quickly blocks the rear wheel of the standard Brompton with mudguards. But the pack size, yeh that is a big deal for me. It is critical for me that I can put bike into small spaces, eg in the boot of a little car, or under my feet like I did on the Deutsche Bahn train in this film.. so safe, and noone can complain about it. On another journey (coming soon!) I took a European sleeper train (film coming soon....!), which was the first time I tried that, and when I got on board with my folded Brompton and bags, I was worried that the folded bike wouldnt fit anywhere. I was in the cheap 6 bed couchette and it is quite cramped, not a lot of luggage space. But it went under the bottom bunk perfeclty. I could just slide it under. Hope you can try both maybe. Dad has recently bought a Decathlon 20 inch folder, and it is a lovely bike. We both like it. A very nice ride. But when folded, the bike is basically massive...
@susannathornton
Dear Susanna, thank you for your advice this helps me a lot! Pack size is key, so I go for a standard Brompton with 6 gears and rack.
Wish me luck to find a good one.
hi Susanna I enjoy watching your travels on your Brompton, keep making them. I have a C line six speed Brompton myself and have got it for two years but have only done about 300 plus miles on it. Today I checked wear on my chain as I just bought a chain wear tool and was surprised to see that my chain needs changed as the chain wear tool went strait through the.075 setting which probably means replacing the two rear sprockets and probably the front chain ring. as well. I would be interested to know how often you would change your chain and how many miles would you expect to get from your chain as you do long journeys . Look forward to hearing your reply. Many thanks in advance, Sammy
Hi Samuel! thanks for watching! sounds nice that you have a Brompton. About chains, well, I change the chain on my Brompton only when it is really worn out and baggy, so that I can kind of lift it off the chainring, and when riding in the wet especially feel it grinding a bit on the chainring teeth... The thing is, A I am lazy! and B my 3-speed Brompton has a single steel chainring, which is cheap, a steel single rear sprocket, also cheap. I am not doing high performance riding, wanting silky smooth gear changes etc. On my Brompton, just touring, tootling around. So on my Brompton, I look after the chain - ie clean sand etc off, oil it regularly, eg always take oil with me on a tour - but I completely wear the chain and the whole drive train out. Then I just replace the whole lot - chain, chainring, and sprocket. It doesnt cost much to replace the whole lot. There is a theoretical risk that an old chain snaps, but it is highly unlikely - I have snapped one chain once in about 40 years, and that was on a derailleur road bike where the chain is moving a lot more, eg side to side, both front and back. On a fancy road bike, I did things differently, cos the drivetrain components - multi speed cassette, multi chainrings - even if not top of the range are much more expensive than my simple Brompton set up. A worn chain damages these expensive items, so I'd change the chain (which is relatively cheap) before it got worn and damaged the other components. Hope that helps??!! Best wishes!
A lovely experience. Thank you for sharing this with us.
So glad to see this final part of the home from Sweden trilogy. Thank you for all the effort you put in to include us in your adventures. You always inspire me to be braver (although I think I would have moved the tent away from those cows ).
Hello Jo! Aw thank *you* for coming along! I really appreciate it when people take the trouble to write. When i started the channel I hardly ever met anyone who thought the things that I enjoy doing, like heading off alone on a bike with a tent, could possibly be enjoyable haha - but now I know I meet likeminded people on here all the time, so nice! Aw yeah those cows... thank goodness it was going dark. I am super wary of cows. I just imagined them getting all tangled up and tripping over the guy ropes and ripping the tent. And some friends who live in the countryside have had trouble with cows licking their parked car. I was thinking about that! Glad this time it all worked out without any trouble. WIshing you lots of trouble free adventures in 2025! Happy New Year!
@susannathornton Happy New Year and new adventures to you, too. Back to the cows and night visitors, camping in the New Forest last year, I could hear a pony munching very close to my tent in the early hours. That didn't promote peaceful sleep.
Another awesome trip. Your a inspiration, I will be riding my bikes as much as possible this year. I did try a Brompton but I still found my Birdy a better ride, can't beat the Brompton folds though, the Birdy is a close second.
Hi Marcus, right let's go for it me too. Your Birdy sounds great. I just read the Cycling UK review, and comparison of Brompton and Birdy. I had not paid attention to Birdys before actually. Each bike is a different set of compromises isnt it, w its own pros and cons... and of course people are all different too, height and weight etc so there is no one right bike. Yeah I agree the small fold size of the little Brompton is a fantastic thing. When I put my bike under a train seat and it actually fits or in the back of someone's little car and it goes snugly in and you can close the boot without doing anything I think oh god I love this thing
@susannathornton yeah both great bikes at similar price points. Yours has served you well many a mile. Looking forward to your next adventure, will have to film mine also, but probably not as good as trip as you do!
Thanks Susanna for another great video. I must admit you did get me worried about those Cows but it all went ok. Hopefully for now you are tucked up safe indoors given the cold weather we have but Spring will soon be here and we can live rather than survive again. Best wishes to you and your husband for 2025.
Power 💪👏👍 only in my dreams so far long journeys like yours 😊
Hi Susanna, great to see you back in the saddle, will be watching your video later. All the best for 2025. P&D new forest x
Great video to round off a lovely series of videos in 2024! Happy new year Susanna.
Nice riding, Susanna. Just the boost i needed to get out early on my bike. Have a peaceful 2025 💚
aw thanks Tim! yeh me too, so looking forward to get out again. Happy New Year!
Wow what a great journey! How nice and what a lovely weather! Great camp spots as well 🎉🎉💪🏻👍🏻
Shade that You miss Christiansfeld. You would have loved i.
Aw I wish I had gone there, sounds really interesting!
What a lovely adventure and you present it with such enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing 😊😊
Hello Paul! Thanks for watching - and for writing with such enthusiasm x really appreciate it, happy new year!
@ Happy new year to you and your family 😊
brilliant content! Thank you for the journey.
What an amazing trip. You really bring it to life with your style of story-telling. I love watching your adventures. Happy New Year to you 😀
Thanks Anna! Happy New Year to you too!!
Loving your content, Susanna! I really like how you look into there history of some of the places you visit and are able to not only entertain your audience, but educate us as well. One thing that I'm interested in is how you go about filming your trips. What cameras do you use? Do you have a separate microphone?
Hi Jim! aw thank you for the lovely comment. Glad you enjoy the films. About how I film, I sometimes film using my phone, which is a google pixel, but mainly use a Gopro Hero Black 9. When I started, I had a Gopro Hero 7. It had poor sound quality and poor stabilisation. The 9 is hugely better than the 7. I shoot in 1080p resolution. About sound, I use the sound from the Gopro. I use a windslayer spongy housing on the Gopro to keep the wind noise down. I dont have a separate microphone. It is quite tricky on the road keeping it all going and setting things up, and I dont want any more bits like extra microphone to faff with unless they seem to me really worth it. I am a kind of make do person. And at the limit managing the set up I have got! Hope that helps! thank you for watching! Best wishes!
@@susannathornton That's extremely helpful, Susanna! I think you're doing a brilliant job with that minimal setup. A couple of follow up questions if you don't mind - do you use a mount for the GoPro and lastly, what editing software do you use?
@@jimpannell2035 hi again! I use GoPro own brand ball joint swivel mount, on the handlebars. And Adobe premiere pro
fantastic adventure, so brave
Great video, as always! Enjoyed your trip! :)
HI Susanna: What a lovely ride through southern Denmark! I think that was an electric wire to prevent the cows from wandering into your last campsite? Steen Steensen Blicher's "Birds of Passage" is a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing another wonderful Brompton cycling adventure. Happy New Year 🚴🌍☮2025
Denmark here - love when you show the parts of Denmark turists dont go to
Hi Susanna, lovely video once again thanks. Would love to know how you make those lovely pancakes on the road. Regards to you
Happy New Year.
Just looked it up, there are 9 bakeries in Horsens. 🙂 You should have asked someone. Maybe us Danes are weird, but we will always help. We are taught that from childhood. We must help each other, nobody can do everything.
I am glad you took the eastern route down through Jylland. The western one is rougher and way more windy, a completely different landscape, like being in another country.
Nice to see you had a good trip. I have a feeling you like biking in DK.
Remember, if it is a state forest, you don't have to camp a the shelters, you can wild camp like in Sweden. But only State forests.
Hope you will visit again, I like to see you cycling in my country.
Hi Gert! Happy New Year to you too! Aw yeh I got myself in a tizzy in Horsens, unnecessarily! I went round and round in circles in the city cetnre looking for a bakery on a street I could see on google maps, but I couldnt find it, realised later the bakery must have been inside a covered shopping mall type place actually, and that was why I couldnt find it. Silly, yeh I should have asked. I was hungry and spent ages trying to find just that one cafe. Then just felt kind of frustrated with myself. Everyone I met was kind and helpful. I didn't include everyone I met in the film for various reasons. eg I met a really lovely woman one evening, also camping, close to her home for one night, having a break from her family, getting some fresh air and space. It is a lovely thing you guys do, maintaining, and using the primitive camping network. The woman I met didn't consider what she was doing to be unusual. How lovely is that. By the way, is Steen Steensen Blicher a writer people read these days in Denmark? I saw that his stories etc are in school books. I thought it was surprising that his work hasnt been much translated into English, or into Swedish either. I haven't tried reading the short novels. I think his Birds of Passage poems are lovely. Anyway, thank you for writing! Wishing you a very good year in 2025!
@@susannathornton I don't think Steen Steensen Blicher is much read nowadays. I have never read him. When I went to school (60s and 70s) we didn't cover him. I have heard he's name, maybe from my grandma, she came from that area, and she read all sorts of writers. I might also heard about him in other ways.
Have you read Karen Blixen? Her life, or at least part of her life, was portrayed in a film, with Meryl Streep as Karen. Movie is called Out of Africa.
Love your videos Susanna, you truly seem like a wonderful human.!
What do you make of the G Line for your ventures, will you be investing or are they too heavy and unnecessary I wonder ?
You are such a inspiration. Thank you so much. I want to try it this year. But I am a little bit scared because of the brakes and going down steep hills with this brakes. Most areas have hills. And it does not feel comfortable for longer distances with these handlebares . On your green, old brompton you had butterfly handlebars. Now you don't. Is there any reason for it? Maybe these handlebars could be an option for me so my body comes a little bit higher and straighter? My handlebar is the M size. Lots of greetings from the south of Germany
Hi Katja! thanks for writing! Hope you can get out and enjoy riding your bike this year! If you are worried about your brakes, I suggest you take the bike to a bike shop, and ask them to give the bike a check. If the brakes are set up properly, there's no need to be scared. Ask the mechanics to tell you which is the front brake and which is the back brake. Use the back brake more when you're cycling. Practise going down a few hills. Take it at your own pace. You dont need to go fast if you dont want to. Then you'll feel more confident, and off you go... exploring the world!
Happy new year