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 […]
Category: 16 Blackpool to Spurn Point
Blackpool, Lancashire to Spurn Point, East Yorkshire
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 […]