A disappointing ride through Germany and a phenomenal ride around Newcastle, ending with a Christmas ride to Bath.
Brynmawr is cited as the highest town in Wales and was another town that grew up from a local ironworks, where the ironmaster’s created round towers as sanctuarys.
Cycling across the Brecon Beacons National Park an impressive array of mountains in Wales, with spectacular castles perched on rocky outcrops.
The theme of this ride has to be ‘chocolate’; I started the cacao experience in Switzerland and finished it in France, but some of the route was monotonous.
5 days cycling around Geordie land. It was a great few days cycling and sightseeing in the area, the people were very friendly, and the traffic was excellent.
The Cromford and High Peaks railway originally approached Buxton over a mountain; closed in 1892 I followed that route crossing the mountain in 26°C heat.
There were many little remnants of the long forgotten collieries along the route, but the highlight of the trip had to be the ‘Rhondda Heritage Park’.
The Exeter canal was used to train paratroopers for the D-Day landings to take the Pegasus bridge, we ride along it to find some remnants of those times.
The Christmas ride has come around again, this time we ride to Bath at night on an old railwayline path, visiting Bath Abbey for carols and then a walk around the Christmas market, maybe with a slurp of mulled wine.