Bicycle Touring
Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 is cycle touring England on Saturday, 26th September 2015. Bognor Regis to Portsmouth. 24 miles. Talk about last-minute.com! At about midday today, I suddenly decided it was too nice to stay at home and came away camping again! It doesn’t take me long to load the bike up, as the panniers are already packed. I just have to pack the one that contains my clothes. Which, with the amount I take, really doesn’t take long in fact, packing all my tablets takes longer!
Before I came away tonight, I stopped off in Hunston near Chichester for the annual canoeing event. A canoeing event aimed at introducing people to canoeing. The day starts off with raft racing between local teams from various groups, pubs, clubs and shops. Basically, if you can get a team together of about eight people of any age, you could enter. Even if there wasn’t enough for a team, there are always plenty of people on hand who would make up the numbers.
After the raft racing comes the canoeing, which gives people, again of any age or ability, a chance to have a go. As much as I enjoy this event, I find standing around these days very uncomfortable. So by coming away camping, it gave me an excuse to leave the event early and also have a half-decent ride to ease my back after the standing around! I did manage to stay there for about two and a half hours before making my excuses and leaving. Not before I’d had a chance to catch up with friends that I hadn’t seen for a while, which is always nice.
I had a nice, fast ride to Portsmouth. I think I may have done it in about an hour and a half. I’m not too sure if I’m going to continue heading west tomorrow or not. The campsite I usually use in the New Forest closes for the winter on Monday, so it would be my last chance this year to go down there.
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