I had a few days spare holiday so took 2 days off and decided to cycle from Plymouth home. This was in October last year by the way, I just haven’t bothered to update here since then! The tour was also the first time I have cycle camped, and gave […]
Final day of my ride. I was originally planning on carrying up from Taunton to Bristol then catching the train back down, but it was getting unworkable with the requirement to pick my daughter up from nursery within a reasonable time. So I just spent day 5 resting and playing […]
As the hostel had no breakfast option I packed up early and headed off for a local cafe place. Well headed off after a short 2 mile diversion where I had to return to the hostel to hand over the room key I’d absentmindedly pocketed and not given in when […]
Day 2 started well. The cooked breakfast at my B&B was one of the nicest I’ve had, and the breakfast company was amusing (slightly prickly middle class Cornish lady who ran the place and middle aged blunt talking Yorkshire man) though they obviously knew each other quite well so nothing […]
So this is a little late, but I thought I’d finally get round to writing up my July trip from Penzance back to Taunton. So on a lovely overcast and showery Saturday (the 12th) I set off from home and did the short 1 mile ride to the train station […]
Ok. I know this is rather geeky, but I needed to check that the stuff I plan to take with me would actually pack into the luggage I was planning on taking. If it hadn’t I be looking at taking the rack of Amy’s bike and using panniers. Faff basically. […]