if you were able to cycle all the coastal footpaths etc, how long would it take, how much climbing, where would you start, anyone fancy a cheeky go at it?
I think StirlingCrispin has done that - well all the coastal network he can but he road round the coastline of this very isle many years ago...He might be along shortly to fill in the details!
I used to fany sailing around the coast of the UK in my Mirror Dinghy.. I never did find the spare couple of months..
[i]I used to fany sailing around the coast of the UK in my Mirror Dinghy.. I never did find the spare couple of months.. [/i]
A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk by a retiree who first went round it in a tandem with his missus and a jack russel in the shopping basket.
He then soloed it in a laser dinghy, and camped overnight wherever he stopped!! Barking mad, he has a book "land on my right". He took about 6 months to do it, about 3,000 miles of sailing in a small dinghy.
i was thinking of as much of the route being off road than on though
this man nick hand did it recently
get in contact with him,
he's a very nice man.
I've got a book by Josie Dew (? i think...) and she did it all, can't for the life of me remeber how long it took her though
scotabroad I will search that book out,,,, guess if I ever do it I will have to go anti-clockwise now.. "land on my left"
I sort of cycled round the coast.
Realised very early on that many of the coast roads are unpleasant and heavily-trafficked and started heading inland to get quiet roads. Once I did this I just started following my nose.
[url= http://www.crispinbennett.freedomnames.co.uk/Round%20Britain.htm ]My account[/url]
Peter Mann went the other way - doing every road but packed in with a few hundred miles to go. His book "Postcards from the Edge" is excellent.
http://www.petermann-online.co.uk/
It's been walked by a few people. You're looking at about 5,000 miles for coastal roads; 10,000 miles for paths etc.
Unless I'm mistaken Josie Dew didn't even make it into Scotland.
His book "Postcards from the Edge" is excellent.
I'm sure it is, but it couldn't possibly be as good as that title. Genius.
[i]scotabroad I will search that book out,,,, guess if I ever do it I will have to go anti-clockwise now.. "land on my left" [/i]
Ron Pattenden is the guys name but I think the book is out of print now, but if write to him direct he has some copies. He did a talk to our local sailing club. He took the title from the cyclist who did it, who called it sea on my left/ right or something like that.
The Ron Pattenden book is on GoogleBooks.
[url= http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zEPCJMIucnsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ron+Pattenden+land+on+my+right&source=bl&ots=TvYKRGZXCk&sig=gr2NXEQSBYVyDrzuPnMWwkn26N4&hl=en&ei=e5S0S9zXFZr20gTttNQg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false ]Clicky[/url]
Most of the pages are there!