Way of the Roses 2017 Day 5 was our final day of cycling on the tour. It was another fine sunny day when we left The White Horse Inn at Hutton Cranswick. We began by heading towards Driffield along NCN Route 1. Arriving in Driffield we had to wait for the local train before we could enter the town centre. This was just one of quite a few crossings we had to make due to the first section of our route…
Wednesday was our Way of the Roses 2017 Day 4 – York to Hutton Cranswick. However, there were things to do before we left. Andy took our clothes off to a little laundrette on Walmgate Bar, where the owner was very helpful and friendly. Whilst the laundry was being done, we went to Your Bike Shed cafe for breakfast. The food was good and the place was very interesting. After breakfast, we walked over to York Minster and had a…
Our Way of the Roses 2017 Itinerary outlines our first tour of the year, starting in May. Sustrans describes this as a spectacular coast-to-coast cycle route passing through both the red rose county of Lancashire and the white rose county of Yorkshire. Sarah and I have completed this particular coast-to-coast tour twice before. In 2012 it formed the second of our preparatory training tours for the End-to-End (LEJOG). And in 2014 we completed the tour with Alan and Gill, two of our Stockport Community…
