After a 10 mile run on Saturday morning, we took a quick trip to York. We had got a really good deal on a hotel and I had quite a few ideas of things that I wanted to do there – York Minster, the Railway Museum, the city walls to name a few. We stayed at the Elmbank Hotel which was only about a mile from the centre of York. Our room was one of those off the courtyard. Having…
Saturday was the SCCC Mow Cop Ride, which is a ride that we have done before. Mow Cop is a rather famous hill but in actual fact we were going to climb it from the ‘easy’ side. We met at Congleton Park on a rather misty October Saturday morning. We started by cycling from the car park, over the bridge and then briefly through the park. We then crossed over the River Dane again to make our way out onto…
Saturday was the SCCC Salt Line Ride. We met in the little car park near Hassall Green on a dry but rather cool morning. We set off along the road towards Hassall Green, crossing over the canal and following the road to Malkin’s Bank. At Malkin’s Bank we crossed over the canal again then followed a track along the canal to the Wheelock Rail Trail. We then followed the Wheelock Rail Trail for a while. At the end we turn…
We started the Scottish C2C on Thursday, which was day 0 (our way to Annan). Friday was our day 1 when we travelled from Annan to Moffat. Saturday was our Day 2 when we cycled from Moffat to Peebles. Sunday was Scottish C2C Day 3 when we cycled from Peebles to Edinburgh and Monday was to be day 4 when we would cycle to the end of the Scottish C2C route and then back Edinburgh to catch our train home…
The Scottish C2C Day 1 is made up of two parts – our ride from the Rowanbank Guesthouse to the start of the route, followed by the route from the start to Moffat. You can see our trip to Annan here. We left the Rowanbank Guesthouse and cycled to one of the two official starting points to the Scottish C2C route, taking a detour via the shops for which some things that had been forgotten. It was only a couple…
