Cycling to Snowdonia! | Bike Touring the British Isles: Dolphins, Heat, & Hills in West Wales

The British Isles cycle tour continues – en route to a movie date at the most remote cinema in Britain! In this episode of the bicycle adventure, We cycled up the West coast of Wales to Snowdonia. We stopped in Newquay for some dolphin watching, and cycled on to Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, and then Snowdonia. Travelling by bike through Wales continued to test us with, more punctures and some gruelling hills. But as we bike toured through the Welsh countryside, we were amazed by the kindness of strangers we continued to meet on our journey, who welcomed us into their homes and showed us incredible hospitality.

CONTEXT:
In 2021, Jill and I were on a long-distance bicycle tour from Sussex to Shetland, for a movie date at the most remote cinema in Britain! Cycling so far would take us over five months, through pretty much all the terrain the British Isles has to offer.

Cycle touring as a couple was a first for us, and would take us through England, Wales, The Isle of Man, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, finishing on one of the most remote islands in the UK: Out Skerries, in Shetland.

Jill and I met in 2020 (just before the pandemic kicked off) and started dating in the Autumn. In late 2020, Jill moved to Greece for six months to work for a couple of NGOs, before returning home the following Spring. So we realised that, due to Covid and long-distance, we had never actually been on a proper date… this needed to change.

But we’d been locked down for months, so we couldn’t just go somewhere down the road. We needed something a little more exciting. After some googling, we found just what we needed; the most remote cinema in Britain, on Out Skerries in the Shetland islands, the northernmost reaches of the UK. The perfect spot for our very first movie date.

Catch a train, a ferry, or a plane there? No, we’d been indoors for far too long. Why not hop on our bikes for over 5 months of fresh air, and 4,700km of cycle touring the British Isles instead?

Big thank you as always to Jill for some fabulous B-Roll!

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