I wild camped just off the Camel Trail last night. Unusually, I slept in until 6am, possibly because of being woken at 4am by a runner stomping by. In the dark. It was a grey, misty start to the day (after rain through the night; no chance of seeing last night’s...
The super-green dingly dell glade was just as difficult to walk down as it had been last night to walk up. Another hike-a-bike, then. Short, though.I flew the drone over the Burrator reservoir. Some of those shots will make it into the gallery when I get wifi.A brave...
Had a lovely three days at home. Now back on the road. Started with a LNER rail journey to London and then a GWR rail journey to Plymouth. As I arrived at about 5.30pm I had a few hours to get up on to Dartmoor where I could wild camp legally. I chose to head to...
From rural Surrey I routed through urban St. Helier and Morden so I could ride on 1930s cycle tracks. And I spotted what I hadn’t spotted before: a period sign for St. Dunstan’s Hill. The 1930s cycle track here extends to Morden, with only one section missing.As with...
On Day 33, in Norfolk, I bivvied between wild flowers next to a Roman road bridleway close to Lord Nelson’s birthplace and here, a little over a fortnight later, I'm staying in the Mole Valley hotel where Nelson slept on his last night in England on his way to...
Egypt, a hamlet near Beaconsfield, that is. It’s a short ride from the Ibis Budget hotel at the Beaconsfield services on the M40, where I’m staying (also staying on site is a heron).Tonight’s ride was 20 miles or so but I’m making it into a book loop, changing out the...
The hamlet of Steep Marsh, just outside Petersfield, was home, in the same period, to Day of the Triffids author John Wyndham and actor Sir Alec Guinness and his artist wife Merula. A small book carving by the side of the road explains this.I *love* most of Sir Alec...
This is one of the book routes and I don't publish those on Strava, which auto uploads to the blog. However, unlike most of the other routes this is a linear one and it would reasonably obvious where I've been if I published where I started. Plus, it's not as though...
I'm going to wax lycrical about the nine mile, butter smooth Polegate to Lewes cycle track on a separate blog post, mainly because that's where the drone photos will be placed and you really need to see this bit of new infrastructure from the air to appreciate its...
I didn't turn on Strava recording until I was well away from my secret wild camping spot although it's not too difficult to work out where I must have spent the night.I was up at 4am, and I was taking photographs not long after as I only have a bivvybag, sleeping mat...