Archive for June, 2007

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Pevensey to Littlehampton. 49.5 miles

An early departure from Pevensey after being woken by some incredibly irritating and noisy crows saw us riding along the seafront at Eastbourne once again, this time fully laden under a surprisingly warm sun and blue sky. We really didn’t realise the viciousness of the climb we had ahead of us, up and over the […]

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Eastbourne. 13 miles

I woke just as the sun was starting to come up and made my way blearily to the toilet block to empty some ale. Seeing that I was the only possible source of food in the otherwise silent, sleeping site an entire mob of probably fifteen resident ducks made a bee line for me and […]

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Monday, June 18th, 2007

Biddenden to Pevensey. 32 miles

We were up Early, weather looked ok so we had a breakfast of cheese and bacon sarnies before starting to pack up. Just as we were about to take the tent down it started raining so we dragged everything back into the tent and sat it out. Eventually the rain stopped and we rolled up […]

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Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Birchington to Biddenden. 46 miles. First Day of the Tour!

Panniers packed, bikes oiled, weather good, up and out by 8am. Things were going well until 300 yards down the road I had to turn back because I’d forgotten my sun glasses. So after that slightly annoying false start we continued on a wonderful ride through the sunny leafy lanes of Kent, taking in […]

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