Celtic Trail Day 4 and today we woke up this morning to driving rain. None of us were really looking forward to our cycle to Swansea! Andy Shaw ended up having to check brakes for quite a few of us, whilst we sheltered from the rain. We headed out of Carmarthen back to where we had left the route the previous evening. We were heading towards Kidwelly. There was quite a lot of climbing involved in the morning. We were…
Today was Celtic Trail Day 2 of our cycle tour – St David’s to Tenby. We woke up to very different weather from yesterday! We could hear the wind but it was dry. We left St David’s Youth Hostel and headed into St David’s. When we got there we stopped and had a look around at the Bishops Palace and the Cathedral We continued along NCN 4 out of St David’s towards Haverfordwest. The road dropped down into Newgale where…
Due to the engineering works on the train line, there were to be no weekend trains but a replacement bus service. Unfortunately we could not take our bikes on the replacement buses and so had to find an alternative way of getting to the start. Three of us got the train to Haverfordwest on Friday (as there were trains running that day). The others were coming in crew van on the Saturday. This blog post is covering our Pre Celtic Trail…
On Reivers Route Day 5 we had to start the day a little slower than normal to allow the bike shop time to finish fixing my bike (a new spoke and then straightening up the back wheel). Our way out of Carlisle was a familiar route to us as we had used it before. We hadn’t got too far when I had another little problem. The mount for my Garmin came loose and my Garmin suddenly swing down and was…
Reivers Route Day 4 saw us leaving Newcastleton on another warm sunny day. It was not a great start to me as I had woken up feeling rough- I had gone to bed the night before feeling rough, it seemed to stem from something I had eaten the night before. The day started by retracing our way back up the hill out of Newcastleton. We reached NCN route 10 where we had left it yesterday and then had two 15%…
