Following the previous days of rain the Celtic Trail Day 5 weather forecast promised something better as we cycled from Swansea to Treforest. It started however with a trip to the local cycle shop for a few new sets of brake pads. Leaving Swansea we picked up NCN Route 4 again by once again cycling over Sail Bridge as we crossed over the River Tawe. We followed the A483 for awhile. This was a day where the route directions…
Celtic Trail Day 4 and today we woke up this morning to driving rain. None of us were really looking forward to our cycle to Swansea! Andy Shaw ended up having to check brakes for quite a few of us, whilst we sheltered from the rain. We headed out of Carmarthen back to where we had left the route the previous evening. We were heading towards Kidwelly. There was quite a lot of climbing involved in the morning. We were…
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…
