This particular crossing of the country, as well as being quite long, is also unique in an OS map sense, because it fails to arrive at the east coast. I know – I think it’s weird, too; but there we are. If I carried on with my straight line eastwards I would end up in […]
Month: October 2022
Yesterday took me through the heavily populated West Midlands to Rugby, home of the famous public school where William Webb Ellis first picked up the football and ran with it, creating a new sport. Today promised a more rural day and hopefully less busy roads. The school dominates the centre of the town in an […]
There are days in this adventure when you cannot altogether avoid a large conurbation. One of the biggest anywhere is the West Midlands and it stands inconveniently in between Ludlow and Rugby, my two end points today. Finding a reasonable and acceptably direct cycle route between them was as tough a route planning challenge as […]
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October plans – part 2
The next phase of my challenge within a challenge is unfolding as I write. Here is what I think will happen: Sunday 9th – Norwich to Fishguard by train Monday 10th – Near Fishguard to Builth Wells Tuesday 11th – Builth Wells to Studley – stay with Auntie Hilary Wednesday 12th – Studley to St […]
The weather forecast for today was terrible. It was the same dreadful stuff everywhere, as far as I could tell. I arrived in Aberystwyth late the evening before from my epic coast to coast train journey, just as the first spots of rain were starting to fall. Overnight the winds really got up and the […]
You can’t get any further east in Britain than Lowestoft. It simply isn’t possible. It is the Utter East. I cycled all morning to get there, so that I could get 5 (five) trains back to the fairly utter west, in the shape of Aberystwyth. From an OS map point of view, Lowestoft is a […]
Where I grew up in South Yorkshire, we got Look North on BBC and Calendar on ITV for our local TV news bulletins. When they showed the weather map for our area, it covered all of Yorkshire and Humberside as well as Lincolnshire, and for some reason there was always an extra finger of shaded […]
Today I rode almost exactly 100 miles. I also caught up with 5 friends and was treated to a full Sunday roast dinner AND crumble with lashings of custard. Not to mention cheese. That is pretty decent going for single day. Add to that a puncture that I had to repair on the streets of […]
Sometimes the long distance adventure cyclist is faced with big decisions brought on by circumstances not entirely within one’s own control. Thus it transpired when I made it home from my trip to Skegness, all expecting to take a train early the next morning to North Wales. I had planned to cycle from where the […]