Highlights, Hotels, and our Cycling Route

Hi All,

Here's a map showing our stopovers and our cycle route as well as some places of interest.

Scrolling north to Edinburgh you'll find our hotel and southeast of it you'll find a marker for Gilmerton Cove where there are mysterious caves.  We have a tour already booked.

We stay four nights in Edinburgh and we'll report on our adventures each day.

A short train ride will get us to Newcastle where we overnight at the Jesmond Hotel before being transported by van to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast.
Just below the Scottish border is our cross-country route on the Hadrian's Cycleway.  I've stopped it at the Millennium Bridge in Newcastle but we will be riding right to the east coast below the Priory.

We immediately begin our ride east for 28 miles (sorry, the British don't use metric distances) and stop in Brampton at Oval House.  We'll take our time and explore all the Roman sites we find.  Carlisle should be interesting.  A highlight will be meeting up with a YouTube friend from Keswick who will travel with us for part of this leg.

Day two takes us 22 miles along to the Vallum Lodge in Once Brewed/Twice Brewed. We'll also sample some ales in the Twice Brewed Inn.

A 19 mile leg on day three contains the highest point of the route, Crindledykes, and at day's end we'll be at the Norgate B&B in Corbridge.

The final leg, 31 miles long, contains long level stretches following the Tyne River.  We'll call our handlers when we reach the Millennium Bridge and arrange to meet them below the Priory for transfer back to the Jesmond Hotel.

Next morning we are off by train to Paddington Station in London and it's a stone's throw from the Normandie Hotel where we are booked for 4 nights.  We've incorporated a short day trip to Oxford by train, it being roughly an hour's travel away.

Later,
Jim



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