…but where to go?

Not having renewed my passport since it ran out in May, the answer will have to be ‘somewhere in the UK’. I return to work (school) six weeks tomorrow so I have a good amount of time to make any decision and execute a plan. I’m still toying with the idea of a trip to Shetland / Orkney but with the weather gods yet to make their minds up as to whether summer has indeed arrived, I’m reluctant to commit to a trip to the far north. The weather on the Outer Hebrides in August 2021 was reasonable to good. The weather along the north and west coast of Scotland in August 2014 was biblically dreadful. It’s always a lottery north of the border.

So south of the border? On Facebook, Neil Wheadon has set up a group called Cycle Camping UK.

Its stated aim is to create a database of reasonably priced (under £16 per night) campsites across the UK that are suitable for cycle tourists. The map that is being generated can be found here and it is tempting just to set off one day in the direction of a cluster of the sites listed and see what happens. A week of utterly unplanned cycling. But that still doesn’t answer the question posed: where?

I mentioned in a previous post heading off and doing some podcast interviews but that plan has yet to have much meat on its skeleton.

Perhaps by the time this cricket match starts I may have been inspired. Or perhaps not…