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Antique dealer and TV series host Drew Pritchrd has a shop in Conwy. I visited a church in Builth where he bought a bench from. There's a clip of it on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S-tfKW6zT4
Such luck. I thought I wouldn’t be able to get the camera out in time to capture it.
2 years agoCue the celestial choirs. Blessed be the cyclist.
2 years agoChuckle! Wire bellied post setter?
2 years agoWhat a fabulous photo!
2 years agoActually, we’re the same there too but I was too lazy to spell out the detail before. The second pillow gets tossed in the corner (or at partner) when no longer needed.
2 years agoEach segment is an individual day ride from one overnight stay to the next. Also, they make liberal use of the NCN network but use it as suggestions and just a place to start. A fair amount of the time we’re off on minor roads or paths that aren’t part of the network.
If you want to, you can see them all on RideWithGPS. They all begin with UK6, UK7, or UK8. For example, UK8A Chester is the first segment, from Conwy to Chester.
Ah, got it. So you are showing 20 transfers from place to place. Are you devising those 20 transfers as 20 individual journeys, or for example out of Liverpool is it NCN 5, until it isn't? Just curious because we are actively plotting UK routes right now.
2 years agoThose are the only travel days. We’re staying most places for 2 days with a few longer stays mixed in. It’s working really well as an approach for us.
2 years agoWe need four 😂. Two each for leaning on while reading, blogging and other screen related tasks. Then two are discarded and we go to sleep. But twelve pillower! I love the phrase.
2 years agop.s. Your picture shows 20 coloured segments, for 6 weeks. What do the segments correspond to?
2 years agoWe have been home about three weeks now, and like you are banned from Shengen for 90 days - in our case, until mid-October. But having rested for so many days, we are eager to get going again. So we have hatched a plan to hop first to England, before looking for some warmth in southern France. We would just circle in the south, touching London and along the south coast east to west by Canterbury and then Brighton and Portsmouth, then to Bristol, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, and around to Dover or Brighton, then to follow the Route Verte to Paris via Dieppe.
We would show you the mapped tracks, except here in Comments is the only place that Cycleblaze does not support pictures.
The tracks, by the way, were chosen from the browse feature of cycle.travel, which gives gpx for really everything in UK. Like biroto.eu, their map lights up the tracks as you pass a mouse over, and a right click provides description plus the gps file.
Our plan is just for a quick one month spin, 1600 km, before jumping back to Shengen.
We’re pretty pleased with ourselves. I really don’t like breaks in the tour like this where you’ve got a real problem on your hands if something goes wrong. It was a relief when we were safely aboard the last train.
2 years agoAh, phew: that's a relief! Taking a bike on a UK train is (as you rightly noted...) an exceptionally confusing and complicated process, but one of its few virtues is that it's a *free* confusing and complicated process...
2 years ago
You deserve a pint -- hopefully you had one.
2 years ago