After yesterday’s gorgeous ride in sunshine from the wild Atlantic coast in Newquay, across the rolling and at times steep hills of Cornwall and over the River Tamar into Devon, I was now faced with the relatively straightforward task of riding onwards and downwards to the opposite coast at Torquay. The weather was due to […]
Month: November 2022
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November Plans – Final update!
I have made the decision to ride the last 2 maps on Monday 28th November! Jenni and I have just made the 400 mile journey to Lands End. In the morning, after breakfast, we will set out on the 65 mile ride to Fowey, at the far eastern edge of map 204. So far east, […]
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October Stats
I had time on my recent long train rides to do some working out of numbers. October was my most productive month of the whole adventure, at least in term of miles and maps covered. I believe I only took 2 days off and they were due to rare instances of foul weather – and […]
I went home after I reached Hastings on Sunday, with every weather forecast emphatically predicting an end to the amazing window of summer-like conditions I had enjoyed for five straight November days. The south west of England was apparently in for many straight days of wet and windy weather that held no appeal for me, […]
It wasn’t supposed to be a particularly taxing day of cycling today, by design, and it was also the cricket T20 World Cup final, featuring England, in Melbourne, Australia. For both of these reasons, I was off to a fairly leisurely start today. I was further delayed by the discovery of a flat front tyre […]
The correct plural of hovercraft is hovercraft. I checked. And I must have seen more of them today than any other day in my life. Even better, they were not all slowly rusting away in a slightly odd but truly fascinating museum (some were). Throw in a Spitfire and another ferry journey and you can […]
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Ordnance Survey HQ
There are 204 OS Landranger 1:50,000 maps. I had now reached number 196 and that is where the Ordnance Survey itself is based, just on the northern edge of Southampton. I had hoped from the start of my adventure that it might be possible to pay them a visit. Today, that came true. The OS […]
If I said it was another sunny day today, I would be lying. But it was dry, breezy and unseasonably mild, and really more than acceptable for cycling in November. And so my quest moved another two maps closer to being complete, and I clocked up another couple of ferries that delivered me first onto […]
Dorset on a fine day is a lovely place to be. Such was my good fortune today. The rolling hills shone bright green in the low sunshine and the views were seemingly endless. Everyone I met talked about how awful the weather has been in November, and there were big puddles everywhere. But this morning […]
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September Stats
Catching up on some of the numbers. In September I was inactive for the first 2 weeks, due to a family holiday in Slovenia. I returned to action by train and ferry on 14th Sept and by bike on 15th Sept, in the Isle of Man (OS map 95). That marked the start of a […]