Today was the one time in this entire adventure that I could leave my own house on a bike and simply ride. I was in my own OS Map, Landranger 110, where I ended the day yesterday after starting on the west coast. Today I would ride all the way to Cleethorpes on the east […]
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Today was a three map day. If I have any chance of completing the country this year, that will be the first of many in the coming weeks. It required an early start. The first west bound train of the day from my village goes all the way to Liverpool (rather than Manchester only, as […]
From time to time in this adventure, the opportunity arises to visit somewhere truly different. Today was one of those days. Map 107 contains an extremity so extreme that it has to be put in its own box. Spurn Point is a narrow spit of land that hooks around from the northern entrance of the […]
Today was probably the flattest day of the entire journey so far. I can’t think of anywhere else this vertically challenged over so many hours of riding. The first section, from York to the wolds at Market Weighton, was particularly flat and not especially interesting. It was mostly just ploughed fields and hedgerows, with the […]
Today was another glorious ride from west to east across beautiful Yorkshire countryside. We were never far from somewhere I knew; but somehow we managed to follow an interesting and cycle friendly route that was almost entirely new to me. That is one of the objectives of the adventure, of course, to experience new places. […]
My fifteenth coast to coast ride began at lunchtime today in the sunshine on Blackpool promenade. On a normal bank holiday, the place would have been very busy with day trippers; but today was the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and almost everything was closed. There was still a smattering of people out, however, as […]
Today I reached the major milestone of 100 OS Landranger maps and, in doing so, also completed my 14th coast to coast crossing of the country. That means, for the first time, there are now fewer coast to coasts left than I have already done! We also crossed the Yorkshire Wolds from west to east […]
What a day of cycling we enjoyed today! On a perfect late summer’s day, with a gentle following breeze, the journey of 68 miles from Sedbergh to a little south of Fountains Abbey was a true delight from start to finish. The roads were small and quiet, the land green, the scenery breathtaking and the […]
Today was a day that got squeezed to the fullest extent possible, and just about gave us enough time and daylight to do everything we set out to do. Which was a lot! I say we, because I am pleased to say that this was the first of 3 days this week that I will […]
My task today was straightforward: get up, have breakfast, ride roughly 85 miles around the full perimeter of the Isle of Man, collect my bags from the hotel, and all in time to catch the 7.45pm ferry back to Heysham. I am happy to report that I achieved all of it. I was a little […]