A miserable day……………………. As usual Susan was awake at “sparrows” and I knew that I had a puncture to fix so we got up early so we could be all sorted...
Today is the longest day with the total distance being about 60 miles As usual we were up way before the agreed departure time of 7 am, it was about 5:30 again. We showered re packed all of our clean ...
We were in bed very early as we had confirmed on a previous trip 50 miles a day on a mountain bike is enough and we had done 49.6 that is close enough to 50 for me. We watched an episode of breaking b...
Day 2 Saturday 2 May 215 Today’s route takes us from my house to the Blackwater valley along to the Basingstoke canal, just before Weybridge we turn left and join the Thames to Kew bridge which we c...
Easter Weekend: 2015 We decided as we were heading up north for a family visit we would take the opportunity to recce some of the more remote parts that are marked as “footpaths” on the maps and i...
The route starts at the Eastern end of the collapsed Greywell tunnel following the canal through North Warnborough, Odiham, Dogmersfield, Church Crookham , Fleet and Aldershot. We will then leave the ...
We woke early to a very severe frost which promised some interesting photo opportunities unfortunately by the time we had sorted ourselves out and arrived at our first point of exploration the sun was...
Its not as simple as I thought it would be….. I started planning a route almost from my front door to Kendal along the waterways of England using my Garmin Basecamp software and it’s not quite...
After the last very enjoyable trip along the Leeds Liverpool canal I decided that a longer cycling trip was in order so I started trying to think of something that was achievable and enjoyable but a l...
Day 3: Leeds Liverpool canal trip September 2014 Another grey morning and it had rained quite a lot overnight but today’s plan was again pretty simple, about 40 miles at a leisurely pace, breakfast ...