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 […]
Category: 18 Holyhead to Skegness
Holyhead, Anglesey to Skegness, Lincolnshire
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 […]