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Celtic Trail Itinerary

Celtic Trail Itinerary

This Celtic Trail itinerary outlines our annual group summer cycle tour route. We will be cycling this with some of our friends from Stockport Community Cycling Club. This year the team will be Andy, Sarah, Andy S, Neil, Des, and Ian. The Celtic Trail has been described as a ‘journey of discovery’, and it is essentially a South Wales Coast-to-Coast route which we will be cycling, from the Irish sea to the English border. We will begin by travelling down to Haverfordwest and…

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Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) Itinerary

Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) Itinerary

Below is our Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) Itinerary. We will be undertaking this coast-to-coast trail, which runs between Southport and Hornsea and is 215 miles long, in Autumn 2015. The Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) is National Cycle Network Route 62 and runs right through the centre of our hometown Stockport. It is described as “an exciting route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders linking the North and Irish seas, passing through the Pennines, alongside rivers and canals and through some of…

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C2C Day 4 – Consett to Roker

C2C Day 4 – Consett to Roker

C2C Day 4 – The journey to Roker This was our final day of cycling the C2C. After leaving Hownsgill Bunkhouse we began the day by continuing as we had finished the previous day. So that meant another downhill stretch through Consett to finish off the Waskerley Way.    The route then took us onto the Consett & Sunderland Railway Path as it crossed the Annfield Plain and past Stanley. We stopped off at the Washington Wetland Centre for tea and…

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C2C Day 2 – Keswick to Alston

C2C Day 2 – Keswick to Alston

Our C2C Day 2 began with us leaving Keswick Youth Hostel on a bright Sunday morning by following NCN route 71 along the Keswick Railway Path.    We cycled through Threlkeld. And then on to Greystoke.    Here we decided to stop off for a cuppa at the Greystoke Cycling Café again. With its gluten-free bread it had been one of the highlights on our  previous visit on our End-to-End. Then we cycled through Penrith and Langwathby,  before stopping for…

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Back to Tynemouth

Back to Tynemouth

Work restrictions have never prevented us from undertaking adventures in the past. Being unable to be granted a full days annual leave (probably due to our having already taken plenty of time off recently for our previous tours) meant we didn’t set off for Tynemouth until after lunch. The purpose of this visit was to spend a little time with Sarah’s friend Laurence and her family (Geoff, Danielle and Amber) who are briefly over from America visiting family, and staying…

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