ASC1951 said:
Any outing where you and your kit get dumped in the water is a proper tour.
No-one ever gets back and tells their friends how everything went right.
It's not the miles you do, it's the things that happen that make a tour/ride.
Yesterday I went shopping on my bike for my dad. I bought an apple pie, walked out of the shop crossed the road, and the bleedin wind blew it out of my hands. The woman thought she had deja vu when I went back in to buy another.