August 21st, 2012 by Peter Gostelow
Well I?m finally back to posting on my own domain. Now that The Big Africa Cycle is over, at least the cycling aspect, it makes sense to be redirecting my attention, and hopefully yours, to this website, rather than one focused on a single trip. There?s a bit of work to do here as I try to bring content from the last 3 years and beyond into one easy-to-access site.
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My bike didn?t stay long in the box that transported it back from South Africa last month. When I started researching train tickets to a friend?s stag weekend in Norfolk I decided it would be more interesting, and probably cheaper, to cycle there instead. And so I just spent the last two and a half weeks joyfully navigating my way along England?s rural roads on a 1300km round trip from Dorset, taking in Salisbury, Reading, Cambridge, Norfolk, Nottingham, Rugby, London, Reading again, and back towards Dorset before the rain came down in Chippenham and I loaded the bike into my brother?s car.
I used google maps on my phone alongside scanned pages from an OS map, making the route up as I went along and imagining I might pitch the tent behind a hedge when friends or family members were too far to reach in a day. In the end the closed I got to using it was when I walked into a country pub in Lincolnshire and was about to ask permission to camp in the beer garden when a local sitting next to me offered his couch for the night.
The trip ?was far from the adventure that I might have found on the backroads of Africa, but when the weather?s good and you avoid major roads, England must be one of the most pleasant and peaceful countries to tour in.
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