Year: 2009

Approximately half of today’s distance was planned to follow the Camel Trail, a fantastic traffic-free route following the river Camel where a railway used to run. However I made such […]...

Early on in today’s trip I passed over the Derriton Viaduct just outside Holsworthy, whilst following National Cycle Route 3. A Mills type milepost just beyond the viaduct told me […]...

According to my plans there was approximately 50% more climbing to do today compared with yesterday, and in slightly fewer miles. That said there weren’t any sections of continuous lengthy […]...

Today’s cycling essentially involved climbing lots of small hills, one large hill, staying on a plateau for many miles, descenting back down a large hill, followed by several small hills […]...

I made may way south to Christchurch to rejoin NCR2, following the coast for several miles. Unfortunately there was a reasonable headwind, so I wasn’t able the cycle that fast […]...

Today’s ride took me through Portsmouth and Southampton before heading through the New Forest to the village of Bransgore, which is relatively near to Christchurch. I lost a bit of […]...

Today’s cycling was mainly on the flat and following the coast. At the end of the day however I headed inland and through Chichester to the nearby village of East […]...

Last night I did a quick Internet search for bike shops in Hastings and found that there’s one located pretty close to where I’m staying. So I paid them a […]...

Today’s journey took me along a short section of National Cycle Route 1 in Canterbury to reach Regional Cycle Route 16 to Dover, passing the historic St. Nicholas’s church in […]...

I’ve been planning this entire trip turn by turn using software called Memory-Map. I’ve got the edition that comes with the UK’s entire series of Landranger 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey maps. […]...