This chapter might be rather jumbled. It is neither a cycle tour, nor even a single trip away, but it simply records a few days in September when I decided to increase my Veloviewer Explorer tile cluster and in so doing, several events have conjoined, so I’m unsure how it will read. Tuesday 2nd September […]
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Return to Alnwick
Tuesday 5th August 2025 My plan for the next three days was to gather more Veloviewer explorer tiles in a very quiet and scenic part of the country, and ideally not battling through wind and rain in doing so. I may have let lucky with these aims since Storm Floris had done her worst by […]
Thursday 1st May 2025 I want to be sufficiently fit to enjoy the mountains in the Northern part of Mallorca when I get there in a few days’ time, so today was planned not just to gather some more tiles, but also to climb some decent hills. What I didn’t expect was that today’s jaunt […]
Tuesday 8th April 2025 I’d arranged to go to the Wooler Hostel in Northumberland in late September last year, but after arranging both the accommodation and a few cycle routes for ten friends, I managed to fall off a mountain bike a couple of weeks before which meant I couldn’t go! Everyone else managed it […]
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Exploring the Kent Valley
Tuesday 15th January 2025 I began to plan this short break before Christmas and sketched out the routes to collect some Veloviewer tiles to the northwest of Kendal. I checked the weather forecast before booking anything and so avoided the desperately cold spell starting on the 6th and by today the weather was warm but […]
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Cycling from Ambleside.
Tuesday 10th December 2024 The long-range weather forecast was spot on last week. I don’t usually pay much attention to such forecasts since they’re rarely accurate enough to plan by, but last week I made an exception. I was hoping to take advantage of a YHA special offer which required making a booking prior to […]
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49. North Wales trip
Wednesday 20th March 2024 It rained all through January and February (well, it seemed like it) so I had no desire to go very far on the bike during those months. Anticipating the start of drier weather, I had toyed with the idea of cycling to Conwy and back over four days but decided against […]
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48. Sheffield in the cold
Sunday 7th January 2024 I’m in Sheffield on cat-sitting duties once more, so before Christmas, in preparation I created a few routes starting from Bradway which were intended to gather some stray tiles and increase my cluster around the city. Now that I’m here, I think that perhaps I was a bit ambitious with my […]
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46. Walney Island
Tuesday 17th October 2023. I haven’t cycled much in the Lake District. I’ve done a little bit in the Northern Lakes and I once did a sportive which started in Grasmere and meandered through the Grizedale Forest to Cartmel. The sportive doesn’t appear on my stats since for some reason the Garmin failed to record […]
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45. A Scottish quasi tour
Sunday 10th September 2023 Several years ago (in 1991) I was looking to buy a car and an Austin Montego was on my shopping list. The marketing for the diesel version played heavily on its excellent fuel economy; which was stated as being over 56 mpg which was remarkable for quite a large family saloon […]