2013 GALLERY

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  • Barry Island

    Newport- Barry Island (1 day, 26 miles)

    As a child Barry Island was the nearest place paddle in the water (dirty brown water, I might add). This ride starts in Newport and takes in the Cardiff Barrage, and Penarth, then Barry Island.

  • Pontypool loop

    Newport- Pontypool loop (1 day, 28 miles)

    Newport to Pontypool loop, 80 percent is off road, following an old GWR railway then back on the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal from Pontypool. This ride constitutes our main training route.

  • Bournemouth

    Newport- Poole (2 days riding 120 miles +1 day chilling in Bournemouth)

    Poole has always had a special place in our memories, so we came up with the outlandish idea of riding there. In 2013 older and fatter, it wasn’t possible, was it?

  • Symonds Yat

    Newport- Chepstow- Symonds Yat- the Forest of Dean- Chepstow loop (2 days- 67 miles)

    My first solitary camping expedition, if I didn’t like it, I could sell the stuff. I loved it, Symonds Yat is a mystical place, plus there’s castles, and old railway path’s- Great.

  • Caen Locks

    Melksham to Devizes to Bath (1 day- 30 miles)

    The idea for this ride came about after watching the BBC series ‘Wainwright Walks’, with Julia Bradbury. This particular walk was from Devizes to Bath along the Kennet and Avon canal.

  • Middleton incline

    The Peak district (3 days- 100 miles)

    It was unprecedented hot weather, boiling hot Buxton for 2 days, riding the Monsal trail, and the High Peak's Trail, then Buxton to Stafford.

  • Middleton incline

    Merthyr, past the Brecon steam railway then onto a path of the former railway Heads of the valleys line.

    Are people friendlier out of town? We travelled on the Taff trail and were greeted by some women out on a walk, as we neared towns the people’s faces changed to glum.

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