Had to do a load of site visits the other week looking at highway infrastructure outside schools, looking at where improvements could be made to encourage walking/cycling (i.e. new pedestrian crossings, providing off-highway links, speed limit reductions etc. etc.). So all the sites I have to do are within about a 20 mile radius and vary from 'deprived' areas with huge blocks of flats and miserable 60's concrete shopping centres and housing estates through to some nice rural villages and posh suburbs.
I thought I'd do them all by bicycle, I get 20p a mile allowance and it's probably quicker when you take into account the traffic and the fact that I'd have to park up and slowly walk around each site in turn.
Day 1 got all the dodgy areas sorted, day two saw the 'burbs finished off, day 3 was the countryside day.
Beautiful crisp chilly sunny autumn day, taking all the back lanes between villages, getting paid in time and expenses for riding around on my bike.
I took lunch overlooking a canal (pic 1), and then hit the lanes (pics 2 & 3), past some lovely little thatched cottages (pic 4) and finishing up with a banana and a juice on the village green (pic 5) - they've still got the stocks there!
Total mileage: 122
Amount Claimed: £24.40 (about $40)
Actual Cost: A few calories and some tyre rubber
I thought I'd do them all by bicycle, I get 20p a mile allowance and it's probably quicker when you take into account the traffic and the fact that I'd have to park up and slowly walk around each site in turn.
Day 1 got all the dodgy areas sorted, day two saw the 'burbs finished off, day 3 was the countryside day.
Beautiful crisp chilly sunny autumn day, taking all the back lanes between villages, getting paid in time and expenses for riding around on my bike.
I took lunch overlooking a canal (pic 1), and then hit the lanes (pics 2 & 3), past some lovely little thatched cottages (pic 4) and finishing up with a banana and a juice on the village green (pic 5) - they've still got the stocks there!
Total mileage: 122
Amount Claimed: £24.40 (about $40)
Actual Cost: A few calories and some tyre rubber