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The Idea
2021 was most certainly not the end of the Covid19 pandemic. Not only was it not looking at all good for foreign travel, but touring around Britain staying in lots of different places did not seem to be to good an idea either. We had been very lucky to escape with a tandem to Correze in 2020, but were unsure just what cycling we might manage apart from short trips from our own front door.
What we needed was a location where other holiday makers were not likely to flock. Not Cornwall, national parks or the seaside. And a fixed centre from which to do day rides, rather than a moving on tour. What would fit the bill? - Herefordshire. Perhaps rather a hard judgement on Hereford, but it offered us some new cycling possibilities. We had been through Herefordshire on our End to End trip in 2000, but neither of us could remember a great deal of what we saw. The Plan
1 In fact we ended up booking two centres intending to transfer by car between them. The first was a B&B on the edge of Hereford itself, and the second was B&B accomodation in a rural pub in Worcestershire.
2 Hereford would give us 3 Lots of Cols and Summits finishing off with the Col de Soulor and Col d'Aubisque in the hope of better views than when we were last there in 2013 and thick cloud that engulfed the mountains Our Tour Itinerary for Col and Summit collecting in the Pyrénées
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The Result
Holiday verdict: EPIC
Total number of named Cols climbed: 10 Total number of summit finishes: 3 Total number of marmots spotted: 0 Total number of p***tures: 0 Total metres climbed and litres of water drunk on the way No idea, we lost count many days before the end. (Rather sad that this will probanly be our last mountain tops cycle tour) Click on the link below to read the whole story |
