Bath

A nice bright if not a little chilly morning. After breakfast we walked along the river to the nearby Park and Ride to catch the bus into Bath.

We had already booked tickets online and caught the bus for the city centre tour. It was a lot colder in the wind on top of the open top bus. We did the full tour and then walked around the corner for the Skyline tour around some of the places of interest outside the city centre.

    

We jumped of the bus and headed to Subway for lunch before catching the city tour bus again back to Royal Crescent where we had a walk around.

We Jumped back on and rode back to Pultney Bridge. We had a walk around the park before hopping on the bus again to head back and catch the park and Ride bus back to the caravan.

We spent the rest of the evening chilling in the caravan.

Two Tunnels Greenway Cycle Path

It was a very nice sunny morning. I checked the fuse in the electric heater and it appeared to be blown.

After breakfast we showered and got the bikes out. We cycled down to reception and paid for our stay, then headed off to find the start of the Two Tunnels Greenway cycle route. On the way we passed Toolstation and popped in to buy some fuses.

The Two Tunnels Greenway was well signposted and we found it quite easily. It was all uphill to the Devonshire Tunnel. A quarter mile long ex railway tunnel.  Almost immediately followed by the Combe Down Tunnel. A Victorian tunnel,which at 1.03miles is the longest cycling tunnel in the uk.

We stopped at to see the Dundas Aqueduct at Brassnocker Basin. We had a nice chat with a couple of volunteers for the Canal And Rivers Trust and we signed up to be friends of the trust.

Maddy had a flat tyre so we repaired the puncture before setting off again but after about 20 minutes Maddy's tyre was flat again so we stopped and changed the inner tube.

With about 3.5 miles to go we stopped at the George at Bathampton, a nice Chef and Brewer pub right next to the towpath, for Cider and Gin and Tonic, before riding the last few miles back to Bath Marina.

After tea we had a nice relaxing chill for the rest of the evening.

Bath Marina & Caravan Site

 Left Mirey Lees at about 9:15 AM and called in at Stonebridge Island Toby Carvery for the traditional pre-holiday breakfast.  After a nice steady drive with no hold-ups we arrived at Bath Marina and Caravan Site at approximately 1 PM.  A lovely little site by close to the river Avon.

 We soon had the caravan settled and had a nice cuppa before popping to Morrisons in Bath for a bit of shopping.

TV reception was not great but the electric hook up box had a TV point on it which sorted the reception very quickly.  This site has excellent free Wi-Fi and I was able to watch Derby v Sheffield United on sky go with no constant buffering.  Although the toilets amenities were of the Portakabin style they were  quite posh and very nice.

We settled down  for tea and had a quiet evening relaxing.

Tyddyn Du Touring Park nr Conwy

Littlesea Haven Holiday Park, Weymouth

Abbotsbury Swannery. 

Abbotsbury Tea Rooms. 

Woodlands Country Park nr Woodhall Spa

Wild Duck Holiday Park Nr Great Yarmouth

We woke up to sunshine again. After breakfast we had a ride to Lowestoft and parked up near the seafront again. 

We cycled from Lowestoft through Holton and onto Gorleston. 

We parked up and had a nice ice cream. Not really very much at Gorleston so we had a walk around for about 10 mins before cycling back to where we parked the car.

We moved the car a bit closer into town and did a little shopping. We found a new cycle lock in Wilko and some solar powered lights in Poundstretcher. 

The we walked to Wetherspoons Joseph Conrad for tea. The service wasn’t great today. We had to remind them after about half an hour that we hadn’t had our main course yet. 

We called in for fuel on the way back to the Caravan.