Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Speicher]

Back home now and enjoying a hot drink after all that exercise.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Ok so the day of challenge started early.

The village pub first and then one in the town.

Now just resting with a coffee and sausage sandwich before the bit of shopping.

I thought it was appropriate to use an all purpose bike rather than the roadie.

Who knows what i may find en route

 

[BigAl68]

The Llandoger trow, the pub that was the inspiration for treasure island & Robinson crusoe

 

[summerdays]

Oh I like Kingfishers!! Seen so rarely for me!

 

[Hill Wimp]

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A (pint of) Kingfisher seen on my walk in north London this morning

One of the nicer bits of wildlife in London.

 

[Salty seadog]

Ok so the day of challenge started early.

The village pub first and then one in the town.

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Now just resting with a coffee and sausage sandwich before the bit of shopping.

I thought it was appropriate to use an all purpose bike rather than the roadie.

Who knows what i may find en route

Hey Hill wimp, you're in Deal. The ship has a great beer garden for a summers day.

I'm in Dover and enjoy a ride towards Deal/Sandwich as its all downhill apart from the getting out of Dover bit Gggrrrr...

 

[Hill Wimp]

Hey Hill wimp, you're in Deal. The ship has a great beer garden for a summers day.

I'm in Dover and enjoy a ride towards Deal/Sandwich as its all downhill apart from the getting out of Dover bit Gggrrrr...

I am and it does.

If you know Deal you know that it has a pub every few hundred yards and with Sandwich being so close and the wee villages inbetween it can take a while to get round them all, especially if @hopless500 is visiting

Talking of routes out of Dover to Deal. Hop and i will be doing it on the return from a months touring in July. Can i get through Upper Street at the top of Castle Hill through to Kingsdown?

I havent told Hop about the hideous journey home from the port yet

 

[Salty seadog]

I am and it does.

If you know Deal you know that it has a pub every few hundred yards and with Sandwich being so close and the wee villages inbetween it can take a while to get round them all, especially if @hopless500 is visiting

Talking of routes out of Dover to Deal. Hop and i will be doing it on the return from a months touring in July. Can i get through Upper Street at the top of Castle Hill through to Kingsdown?

I havent told Hop about the hideous journey home from the port yet

You can indeed go that way. Up Castle hill and then onto Upper Road, once you come to the end in St Margaret's turn left and the a couple of hundred yards down the road turn right at the Red Lion pub,(Kinsdown Rd.)

It is asphalt surface but can be a little rough in places especially as you get to Kingsdown going past the golf course down to the shooting range on the coast. Downhill all the way too....

There is a cheat to get up the hill on that route. As you come out of the docks at the roundabout immediatly outside go to the right to Athol Terrace (you will see a phone box just off the roundabout to the right). Go up there and turn right and there is a footpath that will take you under the cliffs and the Jubilee way and up to the hairpin bend by the entrance to the Eastern Heights cliff car park, (on Upper rd.). you will only be able to push your bikes up but you will save a lot of effort and time as opposed to riding up Castle Hill. I do this quite often as its the easiest way out of Dover.

Regarding Deal and it's pubs, I always remember a stat that it had more pubs than any other similar sized area in the country..

 

[Hill Wimp]

You can indeed go that way. Up Castle hill and then onto Upper Road, once you come to the end in St Margaret's turn left and the a couple of hundred yards down the road turn right at the Red Lion pub,(Kinsdown Rd.)

It is asphalt surface but can be a little rough in places especially as you get to Kingsdown going past the golf course down to the shooting range on the coast. Downhill all the way too....

There is a cheat to get up the hill on that route. As you come out of the docks at the roundabout immediatly outside go to the right to Athol Terrace (you will see a phone box just off the roundabout to the right). Go up there and turn right and there is a footpath that will take you under the cliffs and the Jubilee way and up to the hairpin bend by the entrance to the Eastern Heights cliff car park, (on Upper rd.). you will only be able to push your bikes up but you will save a lot of effort and time as opposed to riding up Castle Hill. I do this quite often as its the easiest way out of Dover.

Regarding Deal and it's pubs, I always remember a stat that it had more pubs than any other similar sized area in the country..

Excellent thank you i need to find that and try that out in the next couple of weeks so i know it for when we return.

Let me know if you ever come this way on a weekend and perhaps we can meet for a drink or if @hopless500 is in town a few

 

[Salty seadog]

Excellent thank you i need to find that and try that out in the next couple of weeks so i know it for when we return.

Let me know if you ever come this way on a weekend and perhaps we can meet for a drink or if @hopless500 is in town a few

You can't fail to find the footpath and it'll save you a good 15-20 mins. Enjoy the tour, I expect we'll get a write up afterwards....

 

[hopless500]

I am and it does.

If you know Deal you know that it has a pub every few hundred yards and with Sandwich being so close and the wee villages inbetween it can take a while to get round them all, especially if @hopless500 is visiting

Talking of routes out of Dover to Deal. Hop and i will be doing it on the return from a months touring in July. Can i get through Upper Street at the top of Castle Hill through to Kingsdown?

I havent told Hop about the hideous journey home from the port yet

 

[hopless500]

Excellent thank you i need to find that and try that out in the next couple of weeks so i know it for when we return.

Let me know if you ever come this way on a weekend and perhaps we can meet for a drink or if @hopless500 is in town a few

 

[hopless500]

Sorry to hear your news Al
brings back sad memories for me however after 5yrs of no pets i succumbed last September at the RSPCA and have never looked back.

i am now totally owned by a 2yr old furball

Of course you could always adopt Potsy.

 

[Hill Wimp]

You could have gone for the jackpot and said it was a heron.

None of us would be the wiser.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Don't forget we have an expert ornithologist amongst our ranks........ @potsy wouldn't be fuled.

Arhh yes Potsy.