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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 7
- maanantai 5. syyskuuta 2022 klo 12.58
- 🌧 22 °C
- Korkeus: 125 ft
- Englanti Warmley 51.463754, -2.47945451°27’50” N 2°28’46” W
Warmley with friend
5. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Three Amigos to accompany me for the first 20 miles of my trip today then treat me to beans on toast at Warmley Cafe. Thanks friends.
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Matkaajait was a pleasure, rain stopped after two tunnels and sun came out!
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MatkaajaBeans on toast - we know how to treat our friends 😅
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Glad to be of help on your way - you'll have to find your own beans today. 😊 [Paul Gilson]
6.9.2022Vastaa
Matkaajaah that's so nice!!
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 7
- maanantai 5. syyskuuta 2022 klo 18.15
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Korkeus: 125 ft
- Englanti Stonehouse 51.748923, -2.28386651°44’56” N 2°17’2” W
Old friend
5. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Stopped in on Ed and Sue in Cambridge. Old friends from Canoeing days. V brief visit but couldn't miss them out!

Just after I left a rainbow appeared. First one of the trip.
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MatkaajaThought you were going to Stonehouse?
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MatkaajaI made a diversion specially
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MatkaajaThese 2 taught us and our 4 children how to kayake and canoe
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 7
- maanantai 5. syyskuuta 2022 klo 20.11
- 🌧 18 °C
- Korkeus: 125 ft
- Englanti Stonehouse 51.748912, -2.28391551°44’56” N 2°17’2” W
Happy day. Sad ending.
5. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
The lads left Clevedon Rd at 1000ish. Had a merry ride to Warmley Cafe for lunch, waited for the rain to stop and parted company. The three wended their way back. I wended my way on. Cyclepath to Yate takes you past the old coal mine at Brandy Bottom Pit. Two halves of a winding wheel and a nice info board. I just can't pass one without reading it!

Rain, nice patriotic flag, River Severn, Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, rainbows, past Slimbridge, through Cambridge and on to Stonehouse. Nice chips and cheese for tea.

Sadly Manda heard that our friends Penny and Ken (Manda has known Penny since school) started JoGLE this week but Ken was involved in an horrific accident and is in intensive care in Aberdeen. Manda and I are praying for them and invite you to join us. A sad end to the day.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaPraying for them and for you, Steve. x
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Matkaajalate to the post I am sorry for your news and praying now
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 8
- tiistai 6. syyskuuta 2022 klo 9.09
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Korkeus: 56 ft
- Englanti Whitminster 51.763926, -2.3173151°45’50” N 2°19’2” W
Its the M5 again!
6. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Crossed the M5 numerous times yesterday and here it is to greet me just after breakfast (with oat milk on my cereals)

Noisy, smelly beast that it is
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MatkaajaHope the day doesn't get too wet. x
6.9.2022Vastaa
MatkaajaBet your oat milk came down that horrid road. Days gone by you could have bought milk freshly squeezed from the oats by the trusty oatmilkmaid.
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 8
- tiistai 6. syyskuuta 2022 klo 20.30
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Korkeus: 154 ft
- Englanti Stanklyn 52.371048, -2.23715852°22’16” N 2°14’14” W
River, canals and that M5!
6. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Dry day. Hooray.

Rode near the M5 for much of the journey today. But started the day with the River Severn. The ancient Britons called it The Severn Sea. It was more gentle today as I rode through the flood plain.

To the Sharpness Canal which was once the largest ship canal in the world. Followed it all the way into Gloucester city centre. Lovely green route through the city and past Telford's Bridge which sank 25cm in the centre after the scaffolding was taken down. You can see it as you look along it.

Where I met my new mate and fellow end to ender Martin. Rather loaded up! And like me he wasn't sure he'd make it out of Devon! We spend each other on til parting at lunchtime. Soreen courtesy of Theo.

After lunch another new mate to have a selfie with the through Worcester along another canal!

Travelling through the counties you can see the architecture changing. Loved the old crooked farmhouse with not a straight line in sight.

And Grandad magnet fishing in the canal with his two boys. So excited with the old bullet and the other scrap they had pulled out.Lue lisää
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Matkaajaenjoying the commentary 😊
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MatkaajaLove the malt loaf pic. What, no butter? I guess the extra 5g and oily kit account worth it
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 9
- keskiviikko 7. syyskuuta 2022 klo 9.46
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Korkeus: 72 ft
- Englanti Bewdley 52.376053, -2.31360252°22’34” N 2°18’49” W
Bewdley for Breakfast
7. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
That River Severn is still a mighty river even this far north
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MatkaajaGotta love a river
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 9
- keskiviikko 7. syyskuuta 2022 klo 21.07
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Korkeus: 256 ft
- Englanti Ternhill 52.886058, -2.54222352°53’10” N 2°32’32” W
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Defeated. But not completely down.
7. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Some journey stats..
Number of bike hating dogs....2
Number of motorways visited....5
Number of frightening
Number of thunderstorms endured......1
Number of rivers crossed today....7
Number of hills on this journey ....18, 345
Number of hills ridden up....18, 344
Number of butterfly and moth species recorded in Wyre Forrst....1140
Number seen by me today.....0

So, the owner said 'She hates bikes'. So I said 'I hate your dog but I'm not barking at it', but only in my inner voice.

Oh that one hill was on a bridleway, steeply uphill and rough with plenty of mud. Traction lost. Ended up shoving the bike up. Defeated resignation. Now I know what Bozza must feel like. But, just like him I will carry on to the end.

Day started with an Italian made wooden bicycle, circa 1945. A thing of great beauty and only 6 in the world left.

Then Wyre Forest. Beautifully empty of butterflies. Full of Saxon signposts. And trees.

Severn Valley Railway at Arley where you can buy a 2 week family holiday on The Norfolk Broads for £45. And buy a holiday season ticket for your bicycle for 5s 3d. Bargains.

A lot of time alongside the Severn, squeezing through bike traps and noting the railway carriages in the front garden. Could I squeeze one in at 29? Or would if spill over to 27, 25, 23, 21 and 19? Must check our budget.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaVery witty comms tonight thanks 😊
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Matkaajalaughed a lot at 'inner voice'. very good Steve. You are very entertaining and I love your photos
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Matkaaja 😂
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 10
- torstai 8. syyskuuta 2022 klo 13.03
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Korkeus: 85 ft
- Englanti Little Bollington 53.379431, -2.40832253°22’46” N 2°24’30” W
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Lunch at The Swan With Two Nicks
8. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
50 miles by 1pm. Time for lunch. Look what I found whilst looking for a bench to sit on. A pub that's open!
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Matkaaja how intriguing 🤔
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MatkaajaGod's provision I think.
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MatkaajaTwo Nick's refers to mark of ownership by cutting nicks in the beak
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 10
- torstai 8. syyskuuta 2022 klo 21.15
- 🌧 14 °C
- Korkeus: 361 ft
- Englanti Bury 53.602955, -2.31346853°36’11” N 2°18’48” W
Vehicle of choice
8. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Found this little vehicle whilst passing the Imperial War Museum North. Apparently they are very popular in parts of Moss Side. I remember driving through there once by accident and being terrified that the car would break down. Probably overthinking it!

Cheshire Plain is indeed plain apart from the rich houses. Plenty of canals of immense proportions today. The size of the locks makes me realise how diddy the ones in Bath are.

Came round a bend in the River Weaver I happened on Cheshire's Salt Mine. A million tons a year is extracted. Just huge amounts. It used to be transported on the river but all goes by road now. Wow.

Passed by Media City on Salford Quays and saw lots of Blue Peter badges!

I am amazed at how one minute you can be in a heavily urban area and the next gentle countryside again. Still a few chimneys left in Bury.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaYou should have popped in to see Hannah!
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MatkaajaIt would have been lovely but I find time is always short
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MatkaajaDoing well Stevie on day 10 already! Where will you be for the Queens funeral?
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MatkaajaBetween Dingwall and Tongue I reckon
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Matkaaja LEJOG
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- Päivä 11
- perjantai 9. syyskuuta 2022 klo 22.02
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Korkeus: 72 ft
- Englanti Carnforth 54.128509, -2.76687854°7’43” N 2°46’1” W
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Up into the hills
9. syyskuuta 2022, Englanti ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Out through those dark mills and cobbled streets of Lancashire mill towns. How many millions of granite sets must have been shaped to pave those streets and alleys. Move just off the main roads and there they are under a shallow layer of tarmac.

More canal and old railway paths and then out into the countryside. The Forest of Bowland was a royal hunting forest in the Middle Ages. It also has some high passes one of which is called the Trough of Bowland. A long, long, long hill with a really steep bit at the top. Average gradient 6%. Same as hill up to Clandown from Radstock. But about 2 miles long. I made it without dying.

Reach the top and the whole of Morecambe Bay appears. You can see Barrow in Furness and Blackpool.

I've paddled a canoe and watched salmon leaping just upstream from the bridge on the River Lune where the rainbow appeared. And terrified myself paddling on the rapids at Halton by Lancaster Uni.

Then joy....Carnforth station is where the station scenes in Brief Encouter was filmed in 1945. Nice meal there.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Was Billy Elliot filmed here??
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MatkaajaLooks similar but it was filmed in County Durham
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Matkaajajust checked it was filmed in County Durham ! Great pics 👌
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