Travelsonabike2 October 10 2023

After failing to go anywhere yesterday, apart from a ride to Portsmouth and back. Garry’s once again attempting to go away but heading in the opposite direction this time. Observations and comments from Garry as he travels around on his bicycle.

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Morning all well we have gone away again well or rather we’re attempting to go away again I’m I’m heading in the opposite direction so um we’re heading towards well Kent that’s where we’re going to go tonight uh go up to kobra I think um don’t know why tell you these plans

Cuz we never stick to them so yeah the idea is I go up to uh crober tonight uh tomorrow I’ll head sort of um North London uh stop the night well I can either go to that um that LE Valley um campsite that we went to before

Or um there was one a little bit further on um uh wol and cross I think it was Feb so we sit M you I have to see if we get to grober today first and then yeah after um North London we’ll just C into London and get the train home on

Thursday so providing there’s no strikes oh um yeah train home Thursday ready for well so I’m home uh for Friday morning for uh the hospital it’s um well it’s it’s a little bit fresh at the moment um I’m not actually on the road that early it’s I

Was coming up for 8:00 I sort of left home at half 7 it so dark in the mornings well I don’t know well there was no rush to go cuz um kobra I think is only about 60 Mi Maybe I don’t know so we’ll go via uh Brighton and then head

Up after that so I can see not it’ll mean anything to you but there’s a tall building over there which I’ve never seen before sure have to take a look at it when I come back although I won’t be coming back this way will I

H the only thing I can think it might be I don’t know again why I’m telling you this um there’s a steel manufacturers place over there and they build a lot of architectural stuff I they do loads for uh the Goodwood festival and I just been oh

God I just realized what it is it’s the little Hampton gasometer oh God I need to get glasses although in my defense it is rather Misty this morning right um I don’t know whether to turn you around or not I mean you’ll have the sun in you eyes but yeah

I I shall turn you around morning morning like that think you’re that straight right see you can see how Misty it is it’s much better coming along here midweek this is normally heing with people bit of a nightmare to get along here I think I need to stops in I’m getting rather

Warm I have been for the last I mean hour maybe now that Sun’s come through it’s really warmed up we made it to Brighton I took my um jacket off uh about 5 6 miles back I think in shm and the Sun goes in not come out since I took it

Off but it’s not cold so it doesn’t matter um we’ve got to start um heading in land next I think we’ll go to the here first and then we sort of start heading up Inland a bit more yeah so lovely so far mind you the hills are dark now Al hopefully not too

Much I think some people can’t breed See’s diverted thought they finished all the work long here but obviously not there a point we can have a look at that albian hotel see what state that’s in um last time we was here um heading for France if I remember

Right oh was heading for Luxembourg anyway um the albian hotel Royal albian I think it’s called at the end here they just put fire or rather they just put it out then have a look and see what that’s like now although I think they pulled most of it down there it is right

There well they pulled half of it down I think it’s still a good part B standing by the looks of it well this is all new and it’s ccle path heading up out of Brighton well I saying you it’s new to me um can’t remember the last time I came up this

Way yeah I seem to remember before having to go on uh uh main road that I think the last time I came this way was when I came the opposite why I think it was when I went to kobra before this is really Pleasant you half

Oh God you can sort the path out though that SS have still not come out and sort of to my left and back of it it’s looking rather black I you they probably got all this because of um Brighton University there was a lot of um you call them

Um complexes I I don’t know there was lots of Bri through the university buildings that there and I think there also is um further up the road near um uh Brighton’s football ground I think it is is it the AMX AMX Central or something I don’t know MX

Stadium don’t like the look of all these cars coming with their lights on mind you a lot of them have these come in automatic things and I’m sure sure they just come on for no reason half time I think we come off this road soon we’ve left the road and um we’re in

Lewis now um we Oho time day uh we just went past the prison don’t think anybody’s in there I know so I didn’t need to stop me so very pleasant I’m Mr ly I’m LS I hope the road’s not blocked the best hope this had a thought um

Crober isn’t that think about the highest town or or something in the country or or in the South perhaps I’m sure there’s something about that I remember it from when I went um the last time oh go [Applause] yeah um my neck and well my neck’s really hurting and tenus is really

Playing me up um I think it was that road along uh well it was beside the a27 road half by the a27 now it was really excuse me bumpy and I think that’s what sets my neck off cuz I did wonder about getting a a train from

Lewis but we’ll keep well we we’ve gone past there now so it doesn’t matter but yeah really hurting well it still is but we’re on smooth road so it’s not actually hurting now well it is but nowhere near nowhere near as much look see look at those clouds to

The right oh they don’t look good nowy H that was a big old thing why he’s going so slow I don’t know where I am somewhere in the country um where was the last place um ring me was the last place we came through uh who knows where we

Are so that’s the joys of following these Maps rather than following a map there we are just about across the a22 framfield that’s the next Village or what I think very pleasant oh they’re open of yes good evening all God um I forgot to talk earlier um

Well we made it to um the Campsite in kobra um yeah it’s fairly quiet there’s not many people here um they close that’s blinding me um at the end of October so they’ve only got a couple of weeks left um 55 miles today so that

Was okay um the last bit was fairly hard or the last few miles I must admit cuz it was quite hilly um I forgot to look to see what it was about crobar but I shall have a look and mention it tomorrow perhaps or put it on the bottom

Of the video cuz I’ll probably forget tomorrow um yeah I think tomorrow we’re going to head up as I said sort of North London I can’t see any reason why we won’t but yeah um it’s quite windy this evening don’t know what the forecast is at all maybe we’re just a little bit

Exposed but hey ho we’re okay in the tent right I shall speak to you all in the morning goodbye