Touring from Kent to Pembrokeshire

[Ming the Merciless]

Exit London via Windsor across Chilterns, left to Oxford, swing through the Cotswolds then down to Bath.

 

[mjr]

Exit London via Windsor across Chilterns, left to Oxford, swing through the Cotswolds then down to Bath.

London to Windsor and turning left ain't gonna get you to Oxford except over both poles! Did you mean Wendover?

 

[Bodhbh]

Exit London via Windsor across Chilterns, left to Oxford, swing through the Cotswolds then down to Bath.

I've done it, but can't fekking remember - you can follow the Thames path as far out as Windsor? It would be one route out of London for the OP and ofc all the sights are by the river.

 

[Martin Rees]

thanks everyone for all the advice II will spend this evening looking at these and see what i can add in.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Cycle.travel is your friend for planning.

 

[Martin Rees]

@Heltor Chasca that is a really good site thank you for that.

@jay clock also thank you the kit list was very helpful. Some stuff i hadn't even thought of but I wasn't a million miles away.

@User the suggestion about the key was very good just ordered one.

 

[jay clock]

@Heltor Chasca that is a really good site thank you for that.

@jay clock also thank you the kit list was very helpful. Some stuff i hadn't even thought of but I wasn't a million miles away.

@User the suggestion about the key was very good just ordered one.

the key thing on kit is find out what works for you. One person can cope on a foam mat from Millets, others need more comfort (i.e. me!). Some like proper pub/cafe meals (me!) whereas this guy makes 27 loads of peanut butter sandwiches as fuel like this guy https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=1p6&page_id=316476&v=mG

 

[Blue Hills]

A jar of peanut butter is handy to carry with you as an emergency anti bonk kit, but I wouldn't go that far.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

London to Windsor and turning left ain't gonna get you to Oxford except over both poles! Did you mean Wendover?

You missed the bit across the Chilterns which clearly would involve going north first!

 

[uphillstruggler]

you could ride the avon-kennett canal as a way of avoiding unnecessary hills for a fair way