Rob and Alison
Veteran
- Location
- Caistor, Lincs
There.
We've said it out loud now.
It's ON!
We have been thinking/planning for a while looking at different outline route options, duration and timings, also bearing in mind possible Covid scenarios.
We are settled upon a three week trip in June next year. Using the Cycle.Travel easy east coast route, a little longer than some routes but it claims to be pretty much the flattest option, that was the clincher as we will be mostly camping and will have Stig with us. Which will limit speed and to a degree daily distances, an excess of climbing would impact that even further. Besides, if we are doing it we want to enjoy it.
The route has a benefit of passing fairly close to home, not that we will detour home, but it is close enough for friends to drive out to meet us for lunch and bring a re-stock of supplies, such as food for Stig, carrying three weeks of his food the whole way would likely take up a fair proportion of pannier space.
In the past we have found cycle and dog friendly accommodation can be tricky to find in the right places, hopefully camping will open up more options there. We do aim to throw in the occasional Travelodge or such like to give a comfort boost along the way.
There is still much work to be done both on finalising route planning accommodation etc and particularly on our legs.
But we've told someone now, so, we're off.
And we are excited.
We've said it out loud now.
It's ON!
We have been thinking/planning for a while looking at different outline route options, duration and timings, also bearing in mind possible Covid scenarios.
We are settled upon a three week trip in June next year. Using the Cycle.Travel easy east coast route, a little longer than some routes but it claims to be pretty much the flattest option, that was the clincher as we will be mostly camping and will have Stig with us. Which will limit speed and to a degree daily distances, an excess of climbing would impact that even further. Besides, if we are doing it we want to enjoy it.
The route has a benefit of passing fairly close to home, not that we will detour home, but it is close enough for friends to drive out to meet us for lunch and bring a re-stock of supplies, such as food for Stig, carrying three weeks of his food the whole way would likely take up a fair proportion of pannier space.
In the past we have found cycle and dog friendly accommodation can be tricky to find in the right places, hopefully camping will open up more options there. We do aim to throw in the occasional Travelodge or such like to give a comfort boost along the way.
There is still much work to be done both on finalising route planning accommodation etc and particularly on our legs.
But we've told someone now, so, we're off.
And we are excited.