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 […]
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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 […]
Today’s eastward cycling began where yesterday’s left off: in a small lay-by on the moors above Hathersage. There is a very successful herd of red deer that live up here, within sight of Sheffield; but I didn’t see any of them this morning. It was an overcast, breezy start to the day – quite different […]
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October plans
This next month – if it happens as it still could – will be pretty relentless and I have only really got myself fully organized for the next week. But since I know that much, let me share it with the world! Friday 30th September – evening – drive Hathersage to Nefyn, North Wales (avoiding […]
Today I rode from the Cheshire plain up and over the Peak District hills on a glorious sunny September day. I ended up at home, because it was too close to justify staying anywhere else. In the morning I will get a lift to where I reached in map 119 and resume my journey with […]
There are times when travelling by bicycle is much better done west to east than the other way around. In Britain, for the most part, that has to do with the prevailing wind. Today, as we made our way along the North Wales coast from Llandudno, on the spectacular national cycle route 5, I was […]
And so to Wales. It took two trains and a morning to get from home to Holyhead, one of the main ferry ports for Dublin, and the start of my 17th crossing of the country. The town is the biggest in the island of Anglesey, although a pedant might point out that Holyhead actually sits […]