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Wales 5: Caernarfon to Holyhead

Posted on 16 June 20002 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

I was out, with a quick farewell circuit of the castle, by 8ish. Today was sun sun sun at last, and Anglesey looked serene and bright over the saturated blue of the strait. I was soon across the Menai old suspension bridge, a compactly impressive thing in fat bricks. I cycled across followed byimpatient overtakers….

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Wales 4: Corris to Caernarfon

Posted on 15 June 20004 November 2021 by Rob Ainsley

A better day all round, except for the discovery that my glasses had disappeared. (Left in Corris YH? Bizarre. Another victim of beer amnesia?) The morning ride, out into the misty hills. Green steep sides, sheep, square and stern slate houses. A long climb up a stony path, frankly unsuitable for touring bikes as well…

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Wales 3: Rhayader to Corris

Posted on 14 June 20004 November 2021 by Rob Ainsley

A bad, testing, but ultimately not unrewarding, day. I had my brake blocks replaced at Rhayader’s local bike shop and, to the ripping-off sound of velcro the size of a tablecloth, was rushed £22. I set off back into the rain……and it rained and rained and rained all day, non stop, a wall of water,…

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Wales 2: Merthyr Tydfil to Rhayader

Posted on 13 June 20004 November 2021 by Rob Ainsley

I was off by 7.45am into a miserable, nagging, repetitive drizzle. It was like a failing marriage. A convoluted series of paths, roads; a few good runs on cinder railtrails; grimy backdrops of misted hills; more drab housing… a world of grey and drained green. Eventually I came out at Ponsticill, the reservoir, ringed by…

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Wales 1: Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil

Posted on 12 June 20004 November 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Not great weather. The air was softly textured with drizzle, so fine it enveloped me like a hangover. Though I also had a hangover, the product of a convivial stay in Bath last night, which enveloped me like drizzle. It wasn’t cold, or warm, or dry, or humid. But it was grey. Cardiff looked grim;…

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