The other day, while I was writing the directions for the first two sections of the Northern Saints Trails Way of the Sea (for our own series of Route Sheets), I realised I’d omitted to photograph the finish/start of sections 1 & 2 at Druridge Bay Visitor Centre. It was a minor annoyance in fairness, …
24th April 2020 If you’re a cycling connoisseur of public art then this tour of Ray Lonsdale’s sculptures should be right up your street: it’s a 64-mile, multi-terrain cycling route that visits all of the artist’s current installations in the colliery towns and villages of the ‘Durham Coalfield’ including his best known work ‘Tommy/Eleven-0-One’ on …
On the longest day this year, Diane and I entered our first event on the tandem that we bought in October last year (2018) from JD Tandems in Gargrave near Skipton, North Yorkshire. The event was Chase the Sun’s inaugural Northern UK cycle tour (it’s not a race, nor is it a sportive, although it …
[osmap gpx=”http://durhamcow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Otterburn-Ranges_Upper_Coquetdale.gpx”] [download id=”9763″] A week ago last Sunday, we decided to squeeze in another attempt at cycling around the Otterburn military training area in the heart of the Northumberland National Park, before our upcoming holiday to France began to encroach. We’d tried the weekend before that, but only got as far as the village …
