Week Ending, Saturday July 9th 2022 ( 49.37 Miles)

 Sunday, 3rd July 2022

10.90 miles. Boldon Colliery - Whitburn - Boldon Colliery. Mild 16C, cloudy. Two vintage 1947 Pensioners.

Monday, 4th July 2022

25.64 Miles. Byermoor - Tanfield - Quaking Houses - Chester-le-Street - Washington - Boldon Colliery. One vintage 1947 Pensioner today. 

AKASO EK7000 Camera. 

Quite cool start, with a stiff breeze, which, thankfully, was mostly a tail wind. Some periods of sunshine, and, some cloudy periods.

Not my usual cycle ride this. After booking Motorhome in at Tyne Valley Motorhomes, cycled

to Quaking Houses, via Tanfield. All part of collecting the ABC of Town and Village Names, in Cyclechat.

I used Cycle.Travel website for the route, which, was as usual very good, but, my Garmin went a bit "haywire", shortly after Quaking Houses, giving an poor message. From that point, my Navigation went a bit haywire.

I did have the route split into two parts (ie Byermoor - Quaking Houses, then, Quaking

Houses to Boldon Colliery. But, the error message resulted in four subdivisions.

After Quaking Houses, on to Chester-le-Street, Washington and Boldon Colliery. 

Stopped to change batteries in cameras at Pelton Fell.

For some reason, front camera stopped recording, at that point (user error, no doubt), so, first 6 videos are the front view, and, final four (as far as Washington) are the view from my rear

camera.  

The route took in some of Systrans NCN 7 (C2C), although I failed to rejoin it after the detour to Quaking Houses, due to my Navigation malfunction.

A successful outing, bagged Q (Quaking Houses), R (Rickleton), S (Stanley) and T (Tanfield), for my Cyclechat challenge, plus, a few "extras" just for the fun of it.

Friday, 8th July 2022

13.73 miles. Boldon Colliery - Usworth Village (Washington) - Boldon Colliery. Only one vintage 1947 Pensioner, at 07:00am! Sunny, warm. A mission to collect "U" (Usworth Village) for the Cyclechat ABC of Towns and Villages Challenge.