All posts tagged: Bike touring england

England: Downtime With Family

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We were excited to get straight to a week of holidaying with the family we ended up riding for eleven days straight without a break, arriving at Sennen Cove TWO days earlier than expected.  Awesome!  However since we didn’t have wifi or a phone we had no way of letting our family know this.  Small detail.  Our plan was to set up at our campsite, have a well-earned shower, ride onto their holiday cottage and see if they were home.  If not we would hang out on their doorstep until they turned up.  We were going to surprise them good.

England: Cycling London to Land’s End Part 2

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Riding in the south of England is tricky as you can either live dangerously on busy A roads or spend hours detouring to avoid them.  Traversing North/South is easy as you can follow quiet B roads but as soon as you try to cut vertically across the country the roads turn into a mess of dirt tracks, farm driveways and dead ends.  Our destination was Land’s End, England’s southwestward point, situated at the very end of Cornwall and used as a traditional cycling end point.

Aughton: Eating, Eating and Drinking!

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After eight nights of continuous travelling, camping and Warmshowers,  mostly in the rain, we were only one day’s ride from a long break with friends in Aughton.  We set off in good weather taking some detours to sightsee.  The sky looks deceiving sunny in this picture.  It was sunny for about half an hour with rain settling in for the rest of the day and continuing for the next week.

England: The Old School Charm of Oxford

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We swung into Oxford where our next Warmshowers host, Stanley, was waiting on the steps of his place.  Stan had so kindly offered his sitting room for us to bunk down.  The house was a student rental with four levels, one level just of bathrooms, and kitchen cupboards stacked with a mish-mash of jilted pots, plates and mugs left behind from bygone students.  

England: Arriving in Luton

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Our EasyJet from Rome flew in at 1am to Luton Airport, and despite the early hour we were psyched to begin our next leg on the trip, our loop around England.  We had organised a Warmshowers stay with Sam and Anna, but we weren’t meeting up with them until 10am.  This gave us a good amount of time to build the bikes, grab breakfast and check out the centre of Luton before arriving at their place.