It was close to the anniversary of Dave’s uncle so we decided to take a ride into Oxford to pay our respects and then to go in search of Oxfords literary greats J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis aka “The Inklings”
These are both world famous authors and I’m sure to most of you will need no introduction.
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Very interesting Sandy. Thanks for making and sharing. 🙏👍🇦🇺
Dead interesting! (Sorry)😊
Interesting. We had George Orwell in our village of Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire famous graves include, Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Dusty Springfield etc.
Nice ride Sandy, bit disappointed that the gravestones weren't a wardrobe and a tower with the eye of Sauron on it.
good vid on channel thanks lee
Least you managed to get a decent day out weather wise. I’m suffering with low blood pressure today, woke up & passed out this morning. So off to the doctors again for a tune up later.
Nice one mate great journey all best to Dave as well
Wonderful ride, very enjoyable.
Lovely ride sandy and Dave . Very interesting ride . 😊
Hi Sandy. The Arch in Oxford..I always think of Inspector Morse and the famous Jag. The graves were interesting as both had no reference to their literature lives. Good video 👍📸
Nice one cycle safe roads ahead🍀
Beautiful rides. wish your videos had "closed captains."
Kepp sharing with us! Thank you!
+13:46 the extravagant grave wouldn't be these scrotes would it ? Shurley not.
"An 82-year-old traveller and his daughter have been jailed for taking a vulnerable disabled teenager from a hostel and making him their slave for 30 years – before stealing £130,000 worth of his benefits.
Christopher Joyce and his family 'selected' 15-year-old Nicholas Iliff from a hostel and took him to their traveller site at Redbridge Hollow in Oxford, saying they would look after him.
But when he tried to flee, he was captured and strung up from a tree with a hood over his head."
Got themselves on the BBCs Video Nation a couple of times too.
Beautiful Christians.
Good distance covered and some interesting finds. It's good to mix the planned rides with the occasional ad-hoc foray. Most of my rides are for a bit of foraging in Waitrose! 😁
Is Dave riding an e-bike??
What a lovely country side with so much history. Visiting the stomping grounds of The Inkling has always been a dream. I may get to do it. My daughter starts studying for MA in Historic Building Preservation in York.
Thanks for making the video really enjoyed seeing the cities you go through
Thanks for getting me back into cycling did my first bike packing down the Southdowns link to the coast
A delightful journey Sandy(and Dave!) Thanks for taking us along👌👍
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Nice ride Sandy & Dave. You might enjoy a ride to the final resting place of another literary great, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes who is down in Minstead in the New Forest. I have been there a few times. Keep up the great work & rides Wiltshire Man 👍
Thanks, Sandy. 👍🙂🚴♀️
A fantastic Pilgrimage!
I half expected to see Morse driving by in his spectacular Jacuar!
I'm a pipe smoker, and Lewis and Tolkien are
Cheers!god's to the pipe smoking community!
Another great video, Sandy. Thank you!
Oxford was my old stomping ground sandy. I was born at the JR in Headington a few moons ago now 😂. ♥️♥️👍👍
So many interesting things to see. Very modest graves for great authors. Thanks for showing us that Sandy, always a pleasure seeing history.
Another fascinating trip Sandy. Lovely area around the outskirts of Oxford too.
Another beautiful bicycle ride through an amazingly beautiful countryside Sandy. There seems to be an abundance of some very successful and important people in your area that had definitely left their marks in history. I think that it is a great idea to include the visits of the various burial grounds into your adventures, it does add a very inspirational value to the whole experience. Thank you to both you and your good friend Dave for allowing us to join you. See you on the next one.
Lovely informative video, thanks for sharing Sandy and Dave 👏👋
Fascinating adventure Sandy. England at it's best.
Thank you Sandy for taking us on the ride. Great filming….nice part of the world
Interesting Hobbit to have there 😊
Thank you Sandy, what a very lovely ride, also very Informative, another great video.
As usual a nice video, nice country side and town and history thanks for sharing my best wishes to you all from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴
An interesting and lovely film to watch. I've watched many of you're videos this last six months while receiving Chemotherapy. I've enjoyed them all, they have kept the flame of cycling and camping etc alive in me while I have been so ill. I appreciate all the effort and work you put into making these. They bring the outdoors into my living room, thank you so much. I' ve finished treatment which has left me very weak/exhausted. But I'm getting out on my ebike now which I have to help me along after over 50 years of riding an ordinary bike. Long may you continue to enjoy the outdoors and make the lovely videos for us all to enjoy.
Thank you
Great video. Im now trying to think of someone from cycling…
3 speed ,with the gear changer on the handlebars. back in the 1960's we called them "English Racers". Shark in the roof made my day, Sandy!
Brilliant tour, I love visiting final resting places, museums and blue plaque buildings of the great and good.
Thank you for sharing your adventure! Thank you for taking me along. interesting video, Sandy. Cheers!
Great video sandy very enjoyable and interesting if you ever get the chance try the inspector morse tours as you can go into places that the public are not usually allowed into looking forward to next video either motorcycling or a wide camp 😊