89 km Elev gain: 872 m (55 miles / 2861 ft)
3 °C (real feel -2 °C)
It's a relatively short and flat ride today, though a fair amount of it off road and muddy, contributing to my slowest average speed of the trip so far. After 60 hours of riding over the past 10 days, my legs feel empty as I continue along the coast with the bitter north easterly wind blowing in from my right. But the wide open sea views and blue skies make it all worthwhile.
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| Longhoughton Beach |
The clouds are moving rapidly, and the sky darkens. I'm caught out in the open when a hailstorm hits, so I put my head down and push through it. 5 minutes later the skies are blue again.
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| 11am - life is good |
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| 11:10 - Hail Mary! |
I stop for a good lunch at the Copper Kettle Tea Rooms in
Bamburgh, before resuming the journey and re-joining the coast path near
Holy Island for the final 10 miles into
Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The final approach into Berwick, still following
NCR 1, takes me over the lumpy and rutted headland with a view of the crashing waves, before I finally cross the bridge into town.
I've got a room for the night, or rather, a whole house for the night at a friend's place in the old town. I let myself in and get organised, riding out and back to the supermarket for food before settling down to my quiet Friday night in. Definitely no Weatherspoons tonight.
Running total: 1257 km 12,430 m (781 miles / 40,781 ft). 65 hrs 15 mins
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