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19 Aberdaron to Lowestoft Other

Maps 133 and 134 – the Utter East

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 […]

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19 Aberdaron to Lowestoft Other

Maps 130, 131, 132 – Kings Lynn?

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 […]

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19 Aberdaron to Lowestoft

Maps 123, 124, 125 – Bala and the Berwyns

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 […]