Our Scottish C2C Itinerary follows a new cycle route put together by the creators of the original C2C; it takes you through the Southern Uplands of Scotland, from coast to coast. Sarah and I, along with our two friends Andy and Andy (yes, lots of Andy’s!) from Stockport Community Cycling Club in late Autumn. The route is described by Sustrans as ‘Linking Annan on the Solway Firth and South Queensferry on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, the Scottish C2C is a…
This Pennine Cycleway Itinerary outlines our annual summer group cycle tour with some of our Stockport Community Cycling Club friends. This year we will be cycling the Pennine Cycleway – all of it! Last year we enjoyed the beautiful and relatively serene Coast and Castles South route. We expect this cycle tour to be just as breathtaking, if not more so – and this time, perhaps, in every sense of the word! Our Pennine Cycleway Itinerary will be as follows: Day…
C2C Day 4 – The journey to Roker This was our final day of cycling the C2C. After leaving Hownsgill Bunkhouse we began the day by continuing as we had finished the previous day. So that meant another downhill stretch through Consett to finish off the Waskerley Way. The route then took us onto the Consett & Sunderland Railway Path as it crossed the Annfield Plain and past Stanley. We stopped off at the Washington Wetland Centre for tea and…
Bank holiday Monday was our C2C Day 3. It was always going to be a tough day as there were three big hills to be climbed. As we left Highfield’s B&B in Alston, it was already warm and sunny. We followed the NCN route 68 back to Leadgate where we picked up route 7 again. Then climbed for a while before dropping down into Garrigill. As we left Garrigill, there was a short but very steep climb – which I…
C2C Day 1. Our trip didn’t get the best of starts! The night before we had an Indian takeaway, which tasted great but obviously contained something that my body didn’t like. I went to bed very bloated and didn’t sleep too well. Unfortunately I was still struggling the next morning. On top of that it was raining (not too hard) when we left! We got the train from Stockport to Manchester Piccadilly, then another train up to Carlisle. From there…
