Archive for June, 2007
Monday, June 25th, 2007
Decoy Pond Farm. 3 miles
Still raining hard, realised after a while that we were going to be here another night, and after we finished the last crumbs of flapjack we were out of supplies. We sipped coffee until early lunch time and decided to make a dash for the Beaulieu Road Inn.
The pub was great, it was wonderful to […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Decoy Pond Farm. 0 miles
It was raining lightly when we woke, Mike produced his rusty camping gaz stove and a dented kettle and got a cuppa going. Michelle looked like she’d rather be anywhere else than this wet, muddy, chilly field and told Mike as much, quite a few times. It was about now that Mike pointed out that […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Ryde to Beaulieu. 28.5 miles
After a bit of a lay in and a breakfast of egg and tomato rolls we started packing up. I was looking at the map tossing up wether to stick to the more direct A3054 across the Isle to Yarmouth, or wether we’d be better off taking to the B roads for a more meandering […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Chichester to Ryde. 29 miles
Up, breakfasted, packed and on the road by 9am. We wanted to get a ferry across to the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth, and decided the easiest way to get there would be to cycle down to the bottom of Hayling Island, where you can get a little ferry across to Portsmouth, avoiding much of […]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Littlehampton to Chichester. 20 miles
Had a lay in till 7.45 today! Coffee with bread and butter for breakfast while I tried to map out todays journey. We fancied having a look round Chichester, it being a city neither of us had visited previously, so I found a campsite marked pretty near and decided to head for that. First though […]