It's a beautiful area for cycle touring. I rode up to Shaftesbury a few years ago, but by the main road, not Gold Hill. Shaftesbury's a nice town.
I'm not around when you're over here - in fact, I plan to be cycling to a wedding in Hampshire, touring the area for a couple of days, then cycling to Brighton through the S Downs before taking the train home from Brighton. Weather permitting. > On 1 Sep 2019, at 01:46, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > > And a bit more reminiscing on Gold Hill… In 1981 Meg and I spent 3 weeks in > that region, Bicycles mostly, loaded panniers, B&Bs for overnights. Some > train travel along the way. Our overall route was London to Tavistock to > Lands End to Bath to Cardiff to Northern Wales to Cambridge to London. In > preparation for the trip I had ordered a Tourism Brochure from some outfit in > England. The cover photo was of Gold Hill. A feature story was about Castle > Coomb (sp?) a few miles east of Bath. Our journey’s first leg was by train to > Shaftsbury, by bike up to the old town on the hill top, then onward to > another train out into Devon where the serious biking started. We probably > had loafs of bread in the panniers, I know we had just about everything else, > but we did not ride up or down Gold Hill. > > stan > >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
