Following an enjoyable stay at Ordiefork in Midmar it was time to head back home. However Sarah and I decided to prolong our break a little longer by taking an overnight stop at Bamburgh. Bamburgh is of course best known for its castle and we had cycled past it on our Coast and Castles South tour a few years previously. We were staying at The Sunningdale Hotel near to the castle. After booking in we decided on a little walk. It was rather…
This Pennine Cycleway Itinerary outlines our annual summer group cycle tour with some of our Stockport Community Cycling Club friends. This year we will be cycling the Pennine Cycleway – all of it! Last year we enjoyed the beautiful and relatively serene Coast and Castles South route. We expect this cycle tour to be just as breathtaking, if not more so – and this time, perhaps, in every sense of the word! Our Pennine Cycleway Itinerary will be as follows: Day…
After our recent Coast and Castles South tour, on Saturday it was back to the regular Stockport Community Cycling Club rides. Not quite the coastline of Northumberland, the spirituality of Lindisfarne, or the green valleys of the Scottish Borders. Instead in ‘Cheshire Cheese’ Jim had lined up an alternative cycle ride quite unlike any other previously encountered by SCCC. I decided to use my touring bike, a good jack-of-all-trades bike, since I figured I was cycling nearly 30 miles to the start and back…
Coast and Castles South Day 8. Today was our final day of cycle touring as we completed the final section of the Coast and Castles South route back down to Berwick-Upon-Tweed. We began the day by leaving the Royal Mackintosh Hotel at Dunbar and picking up NCN Route 76. We would follow this route for most of the day. We stopped for a coffee at Pease Bay. Out of the bay we crossed a ford and straight up a steep hill. We dropped…
Coast and Castles South Day 7. This morning was a little sad as there was a parting of the ways. Three of the team of seven were finishing their trip in Edinburgh and four of us will continue back to Berwick upon Tweed over the next couple of days. It was rather strange with their just being the four of us as we cycled along! To start our day we headed over to Edinburgh Castle. They were setting up a stadium…
