Cycling Day 24: Morning In The Wye Valley
The sun is shining so hereโs an early, visual, update…
Cycling Day 23: Dolgellau To Llanidloes
Having just looked at the two route profiles for the next two days of cycling to Cardiff in the Cicerone guide, I think today will go down as the most challenging stage of the Lon Las Cymru, certainly in a vertical sense. Around 1,000 metres of climbing; one […]
Cadair Idris: The Great Escape
Having just spent the night at the foot of Cadair Idris, perhaps itโs an appropriate time to repost this video from a couple of years ago when I climbed the mountain at dusk with a friend. We got lost and camped near the summit but only found the […]
Cycling Day 22: Caernarfon To Dolgellau
A soggy day but ultimately a rewarding one with some good quality and varied cycling. Hopefully Colin, Chris and Sarah are reading this. They are fellow cyclists and I chatted with them along the way. Colin was on his was home from tending to his boat but told […]
Cycling Day 21: Menai Bridge To Caernarfon…
…via the eastern part of Anglesey. After yesterdayโs storm and my slightly truncated journey that stopped at the Victoria Hotel close to the Menai Suspension Bridge, I decided against a long ride to Holyhead and back for the sake of starting the cycle along the Lon alas Cymru […]
Cycling Day 20: Prestatyn To Menai Bridge
โDidnโt we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor A beautiful day, We had lunch on the way and all for under a pound you know… โ Fiddlerโs Dram / See footnote* Well the first half of the day – up to Llandudno – was great, but […]
Cycling Day 19: Liverpool To Prestatyn
Before the pedants point out that there was no โcycling day 18โ, there was. It was just a shortish one when it came to cycling and I never wrote about it. It involved a cycle from the hotel in Belfast to the ferry, a cycle from Birkenhead ferry […]
The Great British Cycle Tour 2020: Part Two
It starts tomorrow, part two that is. If you are oblivious to part one of the Great British Cycle Tour 2020 (it started as the more humble ‘Yorkshire to Edinburgh’) then you can catch up on the details of the trip so far by visiting this page of […]
