This particular crossing of the country, as well as being quite long, is also unique in an OS map sense, because it fails to arrive at the east coast. I know – I think it’s weird, too; but there we are. If I carried on with my straight line eastwards I would end up in […]
Category: 20 Aberystwyth to Wymondham
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion to Wymondham, Norfolk
Yesterday took me through the heavily populated West Midlands to Rugby, home of the famous public school where William Webb Ellis first picked up the football and ran with it, creating a new sport. Today promised a more rural day and hopefully less busy roads. The school dominates the centre of the town in an […]
There are days in this adventure when you cannot altogether avoid a large conurbation. One of the biggest anywhere is the West Midlands and it stands inconveniently in between Ludlow and Rugby, my two end points today. Finding a reasonable and acceptably direct cycle route between them was as tough a route planning challenge as […]
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 […]