This Mid Wales Itinerary outlines a 200-mile cycle tour from Aberystwyth across Mid Wales and back to home to Stockport which Andy S, Neil, Sarah and I will be cycling in summer 2021. Mid Wales is described as the green heart of Wales. This is the least-known part of Wales, and it’s here that you’ll find Welsh culture at its most natural, folded into the contours of the land as it has been for centuries. We’ll start from the seaside…
OK, the title of this post is a little misleading. It wasn’t actually the return of Stockport Community Cycling Club rides following the coronavirus lockdown, the rides started back up again a few weeks ago. It wasn’t even Sarah’s return SCCC ride, she was back leader on the recent Alderley Edge ride. This cycle ride out to Bollington was, however, my return SCCC ride! I was leading this club ride today and Sarah was the back-leader. I had put this…
Sarah and I have been to the Wizard, or to be more precise the cafe, in Alderley Edge quite a few times. However, it has always been on the bike. We have to go back many years since the last time either of us actually visited the site on foot. This Wizard Wander walk was another in our series of training walks as Neil, Nicholl and Sarah prepare for their upcoming St Cuthbert’s Way walking tour. We met at the…
This walk over to The Cage in Lyme Park was the latest in the series of ‘training’ walks for the upcoming St Cuthbert’s Way, which Neil, Nicholl and Sarah will soon be undertaking. The aim for this walk was to go a bit further and see how we got on. So, we all took time away from work (we all needed a rest!) for the occasion. We met at Poynton Coppice car park. Leaving the car park we found the…
The St Cuthbert’s Way walking tour is getting ever closer. So it was, after a brief rest following our Macclesfield and Gawsworth cycle ride earlier in the day, Sarah and I met up with Neil and Nicholl for another late afternoon walk. This time we would walk out to Linnet Clough. We met at the Townley Terrace car park in Marple. It was raining. From there, we turned into Station Road and then into Lockside and walked up along the…
