Auslandsaufenthalt in Großbritannien

That was fun!
Yesterday I went to the peak district near to Sheffield. It is kind of a middle high mountain. To go there I used the bus line 242 (TM Travel) from Westernbank. A return ticket cost 4.20£. To find the timetable a pretty number of website is offering there help, f.i. http://www.derbysbus.info/ or http://www.transportdirect.info/ (you'll find more if you search for it). All of this websites have in my opinion a bad usability, especially for people outside. The whole public transport is fragmented to different companies and their tickets are not compatible in most cases. Same for the peak district: a lot of websites exist with the identical problems: high quantity, no quality, information are fragmented like hell. Anyway, the bus started 15min to late... The drive to the Fairholmes tourist center took approx. 25min.
There I was seriously in luck and got the last gents bike, a nice mountain bike. If you take a look to my pictures at at the bottom of this post, you'll see it. They charged me with 15£ for 4h and additional a deposit of 20£.
BTW: it was the first time I used a helmet.
The map and a lot of photos after the read more link :)

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I started immediately. It drizzled a little bit. After 50m I heard someone hardly braking in front of me. After I looked to the direction of the noise, I recognised that I'm on the right and therefor on the wrong side of the street. Once again, I'd never try to drive a car here, it's just suicide.
After some minutes I reached the Derwent Dam, made some first pictures and changed also to a waterproofed jacket. After the half of the track the weather became very sunny.
Well, I tracked the gps coordinates of the tour and created a google maps for it. Unfortunately the timer of the cam wasn't well synchronised to the GPS. And it turns out to be very, very complicated to create such kind of map including photos from picasa, at the end I opened the file with a text editor and changed the XML by hand, so don't be angry if a picture is not 100% at the right place.

Sheffield, Derwent Valley Cycling Tour show on bigger map
As you can see in the south of the track, I had to return my way instead of cycling a round. After I've done another break for a photo of a sheep, one tired blow up and got flat. So I had to take a walk back to the tourist center. The staff offered another bike, but because I'd loved to have a coffee and my bus departure was close, I stopped. 3h were enough.
The whole track is pretty nice. The elevation is easy, the max. slope is 20%, but only for a short while, the surface changes, the nature is diversified. It is a strong recommendation to everyone!