The pace quickens

Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey or in this case hog!

Day 1 is nailed down and accomodation booked in Betws-y-Coed.

Day 2 is roughly mapped out and accomodation is also booked, in Glossop.

Day 3, likewise mapped out and as Dudley lives in Keswick, we shall probably all crash at his humble abode.

The rest is yet to be decided. We know we want to head into Scotland but haven't yet decided if we go up the East side and back down the West, or vice-versa. Whichever, we will be aiming to catch a ferry from Cairnryan/Stranraer over to Northern Ireland.

Once we have the entire route mapped we shall then start tweaking it to take into account places of interest, with a visit to the Ben Nevis Distillery in Fort William, seemingly on the cards already.

Planning coming along a pace...

….a snail’s pace!!

Quite difficult with most of us working to be able to dedicate the time to this that we’d like. I think we are pretty much agreed on our Day one plans though.

So (subject to confirmation);

Day -1 – we shall all congregate in the Tetbury locale, where welcome drinks will be taken and final plans for the Day 1 ride will be discussed.

Day 1 – Ride from Tetbury down to A38 near J13 M5. Head north to Gloucester, out the other side on the A40 towards Ross. Turn off through the Forest of Dean on the A4136 towards Monmouth. Along the A40 towards Abergavenny. Turn off onto the A465, then the A4077 to Crickhowell, A40 again, then onto the A479 then A470 to Builth Wells. Back onto the A470 till just before Rhayader, where we will, if our timings are correct, stop to watch the feeding of the local Red Kite population. Why do they have to feed them, I don’t know. Maybe they don’t like lamb! From there it’s a jump across the A470 to detour into the Elan Valley and do a circular route passing by the reservoirs. Back on the A470, we follow that all the way into Betws-y-Coed, where we shall rest up for the night.  

Well, here I go again!

Another bike tour and another blog.

This time I'm undertaking a UK tour in the company of 3 of my fellow Route 66 tourists, David, Pat & Bill. Together we made up the Wild Hogs, on our tour of the Mother Road.

It's early days yet and planning has only just got underway but we are aiming to visit all 5 countries comprising the UK and Ireland.   

Check back regularly to see how the planning is going.

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