Our days off in Bellingham coincided with the English bank holiday weekend and as Chas' bike needed a new spoke in the rear wheel it was an opportune time for our host Bill, to show us some of the Northumbria countryside. This included a day driving to the Lakes District to visit a climbing friend of Bill's.
Previous posts have commented on the Scottish and English weather and tonight it was confirmed on BBC news that this summer has been the coldest since 1993, with 25% more rainful and 25% less sunshine than average. We can only hope that autumn brings more settled weather as we cycle south to Colchester on the last leg of our circumnavigation of the North Sea. Tomorrow we catch a train through the very built up areas of Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesborough and come out the other side onto the Yorkshire moors.
Surprisingly England is proving to be the most difficult to forward plan campsites. We have needed to spend quite some time on the computer sorting out our daily itinerary because there are no comprehensive campsite maps and information. Our plan is to complete the cycling in Colchester, where we started, on the 19th of September
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| Roped in to timekeep at a National Series Roller skiing event |
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| Alston- England's highest town |
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| Lakes District countyside |
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| Lakes District countyside |
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| Lakes District countyside |
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| Keilder forest stream |
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Bad luck with the weather, but the photos still look great. Roller skiing, what next? All is well in Dunners, weather has been beautiful, well since the snow anyway. Spring tomorrow :)
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