Alphabetical Cycle Route

[srw]

I'd like to present a route from Yeovil to New Zealand (ZEE-land), but google won't let me.

So instead we'll go to ZEDelgem in 320 miles

 

[Brains]

Zennor or Zelah both in Cornwall would have been closer !
But that of course would have meant using the American pronunciation, "Zee"

 

[Fnaar]

We've run out of letters now

 

[Brains]

8,441 miles in total

 

[Fnaar]

8,441 miles in total

No wonder I'm knackered!!!

 

[Brains]

We've run out of letters now

Start Again
New rules:

Kent('ish) Only,
and a maybe possible actual ride.
So places close to each other

 

[Brains]

Is there anywhere in Kent starting with a Z close to a place starting with an A ?

 

[Fnaar]

Is there anywhere in Kent starting with a Z close to a place starting with an A ?

The Zoo of Kent

 

[nickyboy]

Xanadu (where Kubla Khan didst a mighty pleasure dome decree) --> Yeovil
173 miles

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Maybe Kubla Khan decreed it when he was on holiday with his Mum and Dad in Cornwall?

 

[Brains]

Maybe Kubla Khan decreed it when he was on holiday with his Mum and Dad in Cornwall?

He got fairly close, the armies were at Vienna and Krakow and had he not died when he did (forcing the commanders to return back to Karakorum) they intended on joining together at Paris before moving on Normandy together.
(The Normans being the hardest fighters in the western world at the time)

Britain and Spain would have been next

 

[Brains]

We start (and will finish) our Tour de Kent
At Aspinals Zoo in the old Roman Port of Lypmpne

A --> B
A nice little 3.5 mile pootle across the marsh from Aspinals to Bonnington

 

[Brains]

B --> C

Bonnington to the Cinque Port Arms

8 miles, flat as you like to the rather nice looking Cinque Ports Arms

 

[Brains]

C --> D
Cinque Ports Pub to Dungeness
6 miles

Which sets us up very nicely for one of the high points (actually at sea level) of the trip so far, The Old lighthouse at Dungeness, which as we all know was not only the home of Derek Jarman but also the also desert in Northern Europe

 

[Fnaar]

Feeling like I need to stretch my legs a bit. Also, we don't want to miss out on any of Kent's beauty, so I'm mindful that we need to go to Each End of it
(36.1 miles, or coastal-ish at 37.5)

 

[Brains]

E --> F

Fisher Street in Sandwich