Well yesterday was a challenge, for many reasons. The second day of a trip like this was always going to be difficult. Cycling 70 miles in one day is fine, getting up the next day and getting back on the bike to do it again is slightly unhinged…..However, the morning was great, I had struck […]
Calais to Montpellier – Somewhere south of Lens
So this morning I am sat in my tent planning out my route for day 3. I was planning to write this last night, but sleep interrupted my thoughts. My sleep was then interrupted by a hedgehog sneaking under my flysheet and snuffling at the zip to the inner sometime around 2am this morning. He […]
Calais to Montpellier Cycling – End to End in France 2015
Having ridden Margate to Land’s End at the back end of last summer, I have been keen to create space for another little trip. Some people have suggested John O’Groats to Land’s End (JOGLE), but I feel I’ve done the Land’s End thing for now, so I started looking for a different challenge. JOGLE is […]
Penzance to London. Not on a bike.
Today I am sat on a train. It feels weirdly normal. I am dressed in normal, non cycling clothes (almost miss them) and I am no different to anyone else on the train. Its weird. So the last couple of days have been some of the most amazing I’ve ever had. Riding from St Austell […]
Penultimate Penzance
The penultimate post from this little adventure. Tonight I am in Penzance, just 11 miles from Land’s End. It feels like I’ve nearly completed my challenge and indeed I arrived here in good time and could have pushed on to my goal this evening. I decided a while back though that I’d like to spend […]
Seaton to Plymouth
As I write, the last of the sunset has just dipped beyond the horizon from a campsite just outside of Plymouth. I’ve just put away a dinner of soup, bread and local cheese to replenish some of those calories burned up today. And there have been quite a few. Yesterday was Sunday and I’d decided […]
Punctures and Pain
This morning finds me in a b&b in Seaton, Devon. I originally intended to camp last night but only arrived with a small amount of daylight left so ducked into here rather than pitch in the dark. The past two days could not have been more different in terms of riding. Riding from New Milton […]
Across the Isle of Wight and Into Hampshire
Today’s mission; cycle the 31 miles to Portsmouth, jump on the fast Cat to Ryde on the Isle of Wight, cycle the 17 miles to Yarmouth, jump on a ferry to Lymington and then cycle the 7 miles to New Milton and crash at my Brother-in-law Steve’s house. Completed. Again quite chuffed with this, time […]
Starting to feel a bit real now
This morning after a very hurried beans and corned beef, I hit the road heading for Littlehampton. According to google maps it was 45 miles away using NCR 2. A perfect challenge to up the mileage. It wasn’t long before bike maintenance tippd over the half hour I’d figured for it. Everything needed tightening. Including […]
The middle of nowhere
So this is my home for the night. My tiny tent is pitched and ready. It feels like I truly am in the middle of nowhere, yet I’m only a few miles from Eastbourne and just up the road from the world famous town of Polegate. No, I’d never heard of it either. Today’s lesson; […]