Cycling to Land’s End & Beyond: Highbridge to Cheltenham
My latest bicycle touring update: cycling to Land’s End and beyond, on Monday, the 28th July 2014. Highbridge to Cheltenham. 89 miles. Managed to de-camp this morning just as a few spots of rain started to fall. But, luckily, it never came to anything, or at least not where I was. I quickly started to pedal off before it became too much!
There’s been plenty of black clouds around all day, but I never saw any rain apart from those few spots first thing! I went on a detour into the Cheddar Gorge early this morning. Not that I really had any idea of were I was going anyway, so it wasn’t really a detour, although I did sort of have Wales in my mind! Anyway, detour or not it was well worth the trip.
I started at the bottom of the gorge where the village of Cheddar is, and at first I didn’t think much of it. All there was were loads of touristy type shops, but luckily they soon petered out, and I got to see the natural beauty of this deep gorge with its sides of limestone rock reaching up to the sky. With mountain goats standing precariously on little ledges. Who knows how they get there or even how they get off again, but they do! One thing I did notice, however that there seemed to be a lot of rubbish around!
I managed to find my way around Bristol without too much difficulty, although the route I went was very industrial and not very pleasant! I decided that I’d go to Wales and visit my relatives, so I crossed the River Severn on the Severn Bridge. When I got to the other side, I decided that I wanted something to eat, so I made my way to the nearest town, which was Chepstow. The only trouble was that it was down a big hill. One that I certainly didn’t fancy cycling back up. So I scrapped the Welsh idea and headed up towards Gloucester and Cheltenham! I might stay here tomorrow and decide which direction to go in next, as I can’t decide at the moment.
Tour Information
It’s been years since I took this ride, but the memories (and the data) are all archived:
- Photos: See my photos on Flickr
- The route: Land’s End and beyond
- Videos: Check out my YouTube videos
- Tour page: Ride overview
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