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Anglesey continues to mesmerise but alas we have to leave but what a way to finish the day.

Hello and welcome to the Great British Biking Adventures Coast Series. In this series we are travelling around the coast on our motorcycle, a Honda VFR1200X Crosstourer.

A lot of our viewers are bike enthusiasts but this series will appeal to a wider audience. Why? Because there’s so much more to the Coast series than motorcycles. There’s the challenges, the journey, geography, history and people. You get to travel the entire coast of England and Wales with us, see how we did it, share our ups and downs, experience English culture, the history and hear about the people that made Britain ‘Great’!

What’s also good about the coast series is it doesn’t matter when you start watching, it’s like one of those open top bus tours – you can get on at any point and just keep going until you arrive back where you started.

Who are we? We’re a husband & wife living in an unremarkable coastal town in England. We’ve been married 35 years and were brought together by motorcycles. One day, Esther’s Honda Melody broke down and she brought it to Jarrod’s motorcycle shop – the rest (as they say) is history.

One cold February day, we started riding along the seafront and just kept going. We wanted to record the experience to have something to watch in the future – the YouTube channel was an afterthought. Take a look at those first few episodes to see just how novice we were, cobbling together what little phone footage we had to try to make a story. To make up for our amateur recording and shyness we added information in the editing. This set the tone and style of our videos, we hope you like it. We like to think we’ve improved and hopefully you’ll agree, take a look, compare our earlier videos with the later ones and let us know in the comments.

There’s also the filming and production journey. When we started we knew nothing about filming, video and audio production, editing, YouTube and the like. We’ve learnt loads and spent loads in time and money along the way but it’s been almost as enjoyable as the journey itself. You’ll hopefully appreciate how far we’ve come.

But what’s with all those bible verses we hear you say. We know some of you don’t appreciate this aspect, one or two have told us in the comments! That’s fine – it really is. All are equally welcome here, believers and unbelievers. It would be a pity if you enjoyed everything else but just stopped watching because of the Christian references but we completely accept you’re free to do as you please.

Our faith has prompted us to include a bible verse in our videos and sometimes a Christian perspective on the things we talk about. The channel is not about Christianity but our faith cannot be separated from it. We hope and pray that it will make you think, inquire and even bring you into a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Welcome back to our circum navigation of the English and Welsh Coast by motorcycle if you’ve been following us you’ll know we’re stuck on the island of angle SE we were hoping to complete it in one episode but this is part three I blame Jared for going on about Druids in the last

Part we’ll promise to get off the island before the end if you promise to stay with us and see if we can pronounce Europe’s longest place name have a lovely late afternoon ride around canavan and take a look at the aish hotel we found to stay the

Night so if you look at a map of Angley you’ve got like the main part of angle see and then hollyhead is on this like extra Peninsula bit to the side and that’s the bit we’re on now having to go around it’s called holy Island as well

It’s like a little sub Island yeah of angle SC And we’re making our way to canavan the route that we’ve got I can tell you is going to take it for 2 hours 20 Minutes Oh look at that yeah that is a nice Beach very nice Peach look at the color of that water Turquoise Love Oh A lovely little Sears the small Bays yeah small Bays this the end oh no oh it is yeah oh shall we what go for a de yeah feel like we should but I’m not sure I can be bothered well I’m exactly the say I feel like sleepy

And maybe that’s the reason we should wake us up a bit and it’s a bit cooler too this would be the one no okay the wind’s a bit chilly y That’s fine D I was waiting just to see what he would say I was happy to go There Is Oh Oh [Applause] Mal treat it’s going over the river Rel s oh lots of ducks and and white ponies horses on the Kamar that reminds me of but when the Great gusts rise and lash their anger on these coasts when the scared gulls career with mournful cries and whirl across the waste like

Driven ghosts when hail and fire converge the only souls to which they strike no pain are the white crested Phillies of The Surge and the white horses of the windy plain how lovely is that a lovely road really hardly a car in sight no absolutely conscious we’ got everything going on we

Got the beaches we got the woods we’ve got this Wilderness field and we got the mountains in the distance anosy is easily access ible but there’s something about its position and separation from the mainland that makes it feel romantically remote its entire population is 20% less than where we

Live in Western supermare if it wasn’t for Hol head’s importance as a gateway to Ireland it would be 20% less again most of the population resides around the coast but anglo’s historic capital is in land and has a grand total of 5,500 residents this might explain why we rode quite long stretches without

Seeing another vehicle Angley is a stronghold of the Welsh language particularly Inland in clangy 68% of pupils speak Welsh as their first language and 87% of them take their exams in Welsh There’s loads more about Angley that we haven’t mentioned and a lot to do and see but best of all has to be the motor racing circuit like many if not most circuits in the UK it was originally an RAF base before being decommissioned in 1992 the WHL 100 Motor Racing Club first

Saw the opportunity for a track but it has benefited from a series of developments since then ESP especially in 2006 and there are more plans a foot to establish the circuit as an international Motor Racing venue overlooking the sea is possibly the most scenic racetrack in the UK and is highly

Regarded by Riders and drivers it hosts a variety of events track days GPS and championships it’s even been compared to Melbourne’s Philip Island Moto GP circuit the TV motoring program fifth gear regularly Ed the angle SE circuit for the shoeout segment of the show we can’t leave angle SE without

Mentioning the town just this side of the britania bridge go on Esther tell them what it’s called ah well it’s called Clan Fair por gwin GIF Gore G earthin Rob po Clan to go go go beat that Jared I’ll give it a go let us know in the comments which of

Us pronounced it more accurately originally the town had a shorter easier to pronounce name that I will put up on the screen in the 1880s in a joking attempt to attract tourists a tayor others say a cobbler added the rest of the syllables bringing the total length up to 58 letters including four

L’s in a row what does it mean it translates to St Mary’s Church in the hollow of white Hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St cilio near the red cave it’s the longest place name in Europe but the longest place name in the world goes to a town in New

Zealand rather than me totally Mis lead you I’ll let two professionals pronounce both just up the road from the temperature got to 21 right fine and sunny weather meanwhile it’s been a long but an amazing day and it’s not over yet we’re heading to canavan but first we

Need to get back across the meni straight this time we’ll use Robert Stevenson’s crossing the britania bridge we spoke about the interesting engineering and history of both meni Crossings in episode 55 in particular how this bridge burnt down in 1971 and was rebuilt in a different way to

Accommodate traffic as well as trains on two levels consequently where the road deck goes through the towers doesn’t seem quite right it’s like when a high roofed building like a CH church is converted to a house and the floor is put in halfway up the Window Wow that’s interesting doesn’t say no entry it just says dead end W time the day is drawing to a close and what better way to end it than ride around canavan we will cover this little big town that is dominated by one of wales’s best castles in the next episode but for

Now enjoy our late afternoon ride around and see where we end up for the Night shot there we go left a just a bit of explore [Applause] now [Applause] oh [Applause] [Applause] W A Yeah this is the square isn’t it yeah I think it is we made it into the square we did and then what a lovely Place yeah [Applause] I like a hotel that’s not corporate but something different from home and this place ticks those boxes at £85 it was surprisingly good value the owner and staff were delightful and experienced hosts she was telling us about how they had taken the tough decision to sell after many years making MyFord house

Into an intimate wedding venue and hotel with just a few Boutique rooms when I looked earlier this week they weren’t taking bookings so perhaps there’s been some developments follow me don’t peep in the lounges yet look at this been from walking into a National Trust stately home property isn’t it

Amazing it was originally an Edwardian Villa built in 1904 by the bmer family Trevor Brer was the high Sheriff of canavan former Prime Minister David Lloyd George was a regular at MyFord it’s gorgeous isn’t it yeah we’re heading home tomorrow but we’ll return to canavan in a couple of

Weeks don’t worry you don’t have to wait that long join us next week when we resume the coast Adventure we are sure you will agree it has been an awesome trip so far but it gets even better and even more exciting by that we actually mean more adventurous stay with us to

Find out why yeah Minut [Applause]