Ride all the OS mapsWe had a lovely time in Durham. It wasn’t difficult: the weather was superb and the cathedral alone kept us busy for several hours, with an ascent onto the roof of the central tower, and then lunch from the undercroft refectory. We discovered tables outside in the sun right underneath the two Norman towers of […]
I awoke in my fancy Otley apartment to a soupy sort of day. It was dry, and largely remained so, but hard to see the hills very distinctly. That didn’t make them any easier to climb, of course, and there was plenty of that today, especially in the morning. Most of the rivers of Yorkshire […]
It was time, the spinner said, for me to cycle north in a straight line until I reached the sea in Northumberland. From an OS maps point of view, this was an easier route to plot, because – just like my route south – it was already printed on the map by the OS as […]
I almost reached the coast in two big days; but family comes first, so I had a little bit left to do today before I could begin my personal tour of the English rail network to get back home. It was another cracking day of warm sunshine and I was in no hurry. I retraced […]