Category: United Kingdom

We had only 21 miles to ride to our AirBNB in Plymouth (where we would be staying for 10 days), and usually that would mean staying right up until checkout time at our current place to minimize the wait to check in to our new place. But we didn’t even make it to our annoyingly-early… Read more…

We had another block of mid-ride off-bike tourism planned for today, so we were up at 6:45am, and I heated up bagel sandwiches on our stove on the patio of our backyard AirBNB while Rett nursed her still-throbbing ankle. The only “kitchen” facilities of our one-room outbuilding were a mini-fridge and an electric kettle, but… Read more…

The guy from the organic oils shop had convinced us that heading up and over the bald hills of Dartmoor National Park wouldn’t bring enough enjoyment to outweigh the suffering, so we’d instead try to see another side of England by heading straight south along the coast. The first actual rain of our two weeks… Read more…

The Kiwi we met in Bath had a lot of good things to say about the route west along the Bristol Channel, up and over Exmoor National Park. But he didn’t bring any “loaded touring cyclist” knowledge with his recommendations. Upon closer examination, there would just be too many steep hills along that route to… Read more…

We would depart the Mendip Hills down the same Cheddar Gorge that we hiked along yesterday, but on the bikes we would follow the road at the bottom rather than the rim at the top, for a completely different perspective. We actually saw some of the ground-level perspective yesterday, since our Uber drove up the… Read more…