2009-Jul-03 by Gregory Williams.

I started out following National Cycle Route 41 to Gloucester. NCR45 soon shared the route as well. In Gloucester I left the cycle routes, but then became quite lost. I eventually found my way out and made the journey through Worcester and eventually to Stourport-on-Severn mainly on A- and B-roads.

There was a very slight rain first thing this morning, but the promised “proper” rain never materialised. So today turned out to be quite a hot day once again. Tomorrow’s forecast shows a reasonable chance of rain. I have a fair amount of climbing tomorrow, so I hope that it materialises.

I’ve got the luxury of a WiFi connection again this evening. So I’ve managed to catch up on the data entry backlog a bit more. There’s now about 10½ days of backlog, bearing in mind that I’ve also created another day of data today (but I think most, if not all, of today’s data is already mapped…luckily).

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2009-Jul-03 by Gregory Williams.

Pretty early on in today’s cycling I followed the Strawberry Line cycle route, which follows the path of a former railway. The railway used to run through to Cheddar, but I joined it further north at Winscombe.

In Easter’s training ride from Fishguard to Canterbury I followed National Cycle Route 4 through Bristol. Considering that the city houses Sustrans’s head office I was surprised at how badly signed it was. I lost quite a bit of time to figuring out which way to head. My original plan for this trip was to follow a route through Bristol, but in the light of Easter’s experience I adjusted the route to skirt around to the west of the city using country lanes. This I’m pleased to say is well signposted.w

I’m pleased to say that tonight’s accomodation has got WiFi Internet access. So I’ve been catching up on entering some of my mapping data. Unfortunately the Internet access in Princetown a few days ago wasn’t working. So I’m currently about 12 days behind in entering the data.

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2009-Jul-03 by Gregory Williams.

A large amount of today’s cycling was spent following the National Cycle Network along canal towpaths. Thus much of the riding was pretty flat. At one point I met a couple of cyclists who wondered whether they may borrow an allen key from me to adjust the height of a saddle. In return they added to my sponsorship.

I couldn’t find any evidence of signing for the Burnham-on-sea to Brean cycle route. It looks like it would have been across the sand and I didn’t think my heavily laden bike would cope that well on the surface I saw. So I resorted to my backup plan instead.

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