Saturday saw Stockport Community Cycling Club members arrive at New Mills Leisure Centre for the traditional end of year club ride along the Sett Valley Trail. The weather for this ride has been a real mixed bag over the years, last years ride for instance was a ride for ducks! Thankfully, we were greeted by a lovely mild winter day. We set off straight down the Sett Valley Trail and headed towards the village of Hayfield. The trail took us…
Having a free afternoon last Sunday we decided to take the opportunity to do a bit of hill-walking and chose a route up to Kinder Downfall in the Peak District National Park. The route itself has some history behind it for we would be following in the footsteps of the mass trespass walk of 1932 where ramblers made their way to Kinder Scout. So following church we headed off to Hayfield and had our lunch beside Bowden Bridge car park,…
Nant Y Coed walk Yesterday was Sarah’s 50th birthday, and today was Sarah’s 50th birthday plus one day! It also signalled the end of our little break and was time to leave Caernarfon for home. On the way we stopped off at Llanfairfechan and for a walk beginning Nant Y Coed Local Nature reserve. Llanfairfechan, although a coastal town, much of the town is a ribbon development following the valley created by the Afon Llanfairfechan. At the top of the town…
The week of writing an Open University essay is an intense one for me. I therefore usually shut down my social calendar and minimise all distractions. Thankfully I had been cycling on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but all day studying on a Bank Holiday Monday. I knew I had to sacrifice the full day unofficial Stockport Community Cycling Club unofficial ride. Since Andy S wasn’t free all day either emailing him with an alternative temptation of ‘a few miles,…
Yes, it was a day that was probably more suited to ducks or participating in water sports rather than cycling. Nonetheless the calendar showed that Saturday’s Sett Valley ride was the last Stockport Community Cycling Club ride of the year, so Sarah and I dutifully donned our cycling wet gear and set off for New Mills Leisure Centre where the ride was starting from in order to meet up with any other club members daft enough to be out in…
