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Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google
(I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
It's something I'm thinking of doing next year. I'm very fortunate that I can afford to take several
months off work to do something daft like this (I still live at home with my parents so I have no
mortgage to worry about, and being a nurse I have job that I can leave safe in the knowledge that
it'll be dead easy to find a job again afterwards.)
Having failed to get off my **** and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday I need to punish myself
by doing something much more difficult before I'm 31.
So has anybody got any experiences of cycling all the way around our green and pleasant land?
Love and circles from Rich x
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>Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
Josie Dew has a book on her tour of GB.
Cheers, helen s
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Richard Bates wrote:
> Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google
> (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
>
> It's something I'm thinking of doing next year. I'm very fortunate that I can afford to take
> several months off work to do something daft like this (I still live at home with my parents so I
> have no mortgage to worry about, and being a nurse I have job that I can leave safe in the
> knowledge that it'll be dead easy to find a job again afterwards.)
>
> Having failed to get off my **** and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday I need to punish myself
> by doing something much more difficult before I'm 31.
>
> So has anybody got any experiences of cycling all the way around our green and pleasant land?
>
> Love and circles from Rich x
The coast line is about 7,000 miles and the coast roads about 5,500 miles. At 60 miles a day it
should take you about 3-4 months going fairly solid, longer if you have a few days off. There was an
article about someone that did it in the CTC magazine about 5-6 years ago.
Tony
Richard Bates wrote:
> Having failed to get off my **** and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday
>
I was going to do precisely that too, but couldn't find anyone else mad enough (I'm now 34 and I
*will* do it one day).
Richard Bates <mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> writes:
> Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google
> (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
I once, when out cycling, met a chap who was doing just that and accompanied him for twenty-
odd miles.
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> >Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
> Josie Dew has a book on her tour of GB.
> Cheers, helen s
I think someone else also wrote a book about his trip, either Nicholas (Nick) Crane or Ian Hibbell.
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: I think someone else also wrote a book about his trip, either Nicholas (Nick) Crane or Ian
: Hibbell.
Paul Theroux did it on foot/public transport in about 1981 - he documented it in 'The Kingdom By The
Sea', Penguin, ISBN 0-14-007181-4
HTH
Tim
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In article <bsq6ba$akpq$1@id-178940.news.uni-berlin.de>, one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of "Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:
> The coast line is about 7,000 miles and the coast roads about 5,500 miles.
Hmmm, there are several places around here where you could save 30 miles by taking a ferry across an
estuary - is that allowed?
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Richard Bates wrote:
> Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
Sort of... I was part of a team that did it as a relay in 1983. Twelve people split into three
shifts of four did London-Troon via Land's End; the second group of twelve[1] took over and went
round the top of Scotland and back down the east coast. 10 days 14 hours and a few minutes. To
qualify "officially" as a Round-Britain, you need to cover at least 3675 miles.
1 - acksherly there were only 11 of us for the first two days, on account of Richard Barron still
being in southern Corsica...
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:03:22 +0000, in
<bsq8b9$6p6$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, Zog The Undeniable <ggg@hhh.net>
wrote:
>Richard Bates wrote:
>
>> Having failed to get off my **** and do End-to-End before my 30th birthday
>>
>I was going to do precisely that too, but couldn't find anyone else mad enough (I'm now 34 and I
>*will* do it one day).
Hand your notice in for a Mayday departure!
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nick@fenris.webthing.com (Nick Kew) wrote in message news:<spnqsb.r81.ln@jarl.webthing.com>...
> In article <bsq6ba$akpq$1@id-178940.news.uni-berlin.de>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard
> of "Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:
>
> > The coast line is about 7,000 miles and the coast roads about 5,500 miles.
>
> Hmmm, there are several places around here where you could save 30 miles by taking a ferry across
> an estuary - is that allowed?
There must be an official route but is it measured as negotiable by car or cycle? IE Dartford
Crossing is negotiable by both but not the Second Severn Bridge. And then you have foot/bike only
ferries eg Felixstowe.Anyone got a spare couple of days and the RAC route planner?;-) MM
Nick Kew wrote:
> Hmmm, there are several places around here where you could save 30 miles by taking a ferry across
> an estuary - is that allowed?
Yes, by my rules anyway. On my LeJOG I will take some ferries to make it even more interesting
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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> wrote in
message news:20031229155759.19067.00001757@mb-m13.aol.com...
> >Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain?
>
> Josie Dew has a book on her tour of GB.
>
> Cheers, helen s
>
>
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'Turn Right At Lands' End by Merrill. J. is a book about a chap who walked it. He refused to use
estuary crossing (due to his own self imposed rules). He carried a rucksack and camping gear and
took about a year.
Paul.
Peter Mann did it and wrote a book called "Postcards from the edge of Britain"
quite a good read Nick: to reply remove 'goaway'
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:54:23 +0000 (UTC), in
<bn41vv8ssfc9cpvgoen4jfehihdc6njahv@4ax.com>, Richard Bates
<mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on google
>(I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
I got the book "Crap Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" for Christmas.
Unfortunately the vast majority of them appear to be on the coast :-(
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Richard Bates <mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:<v595vv44vg1qikq1nbkgg5coog0f4a0glf@4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:54:23 +0000 (UTC), in <bn41vv8ssfc9cpvgoen4jfehihdc6njahv@4ax.com>, Richard
> Bates <mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Has anybody here cycled around the coast of Gt Britain? There are very few reports of it on
> >google (I note that this question was asked here in 2001).
>
> I got the book "Crap Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" for Christmas.
>
> Unfortunately the vast majority of them appear to be on the coast :-(
Yes I read that. I was especially pleased to see Brighton in there. And St Albans (most expensive
houses in the UK and still crap! ;-)
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:27:12 +0000 (UTC), Richard Bates
<mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>I got the book "Crap Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" for Christmas.
>
>Unfortunately the vast majority of them appear to be on the coast :-(
EEK!
Richard
"Crap Towns - The 50 worst places to live in the UK" reminds me of a novel-sized piece that was
given to a school mate by his girlfriend for his 18th. The book was entitled "Everything Men Know
About Women", and the back cover was full of the sort of proclamations one might expect on the rear
of a blockbuster (they were all made up).
The hundred-odd pages inside the book were all totally blank.
James
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Richard Bates wrote:
> Hand your notice in for a Mayday departure!
If only my wife would let me have 2 weeks away from the baby!
I can do the C2C relatively easily though - the in-laws have a holiday cottage exactly halfway, near
St John's Chapel. Which is nice.
MartinM wrote:
> Yes I read that. I was especially pleased to see Brighton in there. And St Albans (most expensive
> houses in the UK and still crap! ;-)
Winchester's entry is spot-on, if you've ever ventured there at night!
Zog The Undeniable <ggg@hhh.net> wrote in message news:<bsupuj$loj$3@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> MartinM wrote:
>
> > Yes I read that. I was especially pleased to see Brighton in there. And St Albans (most
> > expensive houses in the UK and still crap! ;-)
>
> Winchester's entry is spot-on, if you've ever ventured there at night!
strangely enough I have, but only to find a nice quite place to kip in car prior to Da Muvva (aka
the BHF SDW Randonee). Was sufficiently scared off to go back to a small hamlet on the route.
Woke up at 5am by the sound of three mtcb tyres brubrubbrubbing along the tarmac, thought
_b***cks I've missed the start_ but they were just being extra keen, or did not want to pay £25
for 4 sheets of A4;-)
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