Ride all the OS mapsIt must have rained an awful lot overnight, because the roads were covered in big puddles; but the morning brought with it warm sunshine. Really warm, in fact, so you wanted sun cream on. I was quickly down to shorts and shirt sleeves and enjoyed the bonus summer weather. I had a relatively easy day ahead […]
While the rain fell in the north west of Scotland, things further south were much brighter. Indeed, the weather in Hathersage the morning after my grey and grim push through bleak Lanarkshire was positively cheerful, if a tad brisk early in the morning. Nevertheless, an early start was in order to make the most of […]
Thanks to the delay in my rail journey north to Scotland, I now had a piece missing from my NW Cardinal Spin. I have experienced a couple of minor breaks before, one in Scotland and one in Cornwall, that I have gone back and fixed when I had the chance. Now, today, was my opportunity […]
The sun was glittering off the surface of Loch Fyne as I left my lovely BnB in Inveraray this morning. I had eaten a fine breakfast (a photo of which had partly influenced my booking decision!) and I was ready for a ride of approaching 40 miles to Oban, the main town and ferry port […]
The long distance cardinally challenged adventure cyclist has to be ready to react in the face of the unexpected and the inconvenient. I took a train from Hathersage at 7.32am on Tuesday believing I would be cycling in Scotland before noon, but fate had other ideas. I was well on the way, a few miles […]