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North Wales Coastal Path Day 2 : Conwy to Holyhead via NCR 5 & 8

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  Genuinely that is the most traumatic, shambolic, chaotic and frustrating days I’ve had on a bike in the 20 years of doing this. Worse than losing my phone and booking the wrong ferry back from Belfast, worse than putting in the walking route in the Garmin at the start of the John Muir way, way worse than the Etape or any of the unbelievably hard days of JOGLE and Dec wasn’t even here!  Stay tuned for how far you can ride a gravel bike on a completely flat tyre after pinch flatting the  2 spare inner tubes you have, how to not manage to pass a single place to eat or drink in 30 miles, how to smash your only water bottle without realising and find you’ve no water or anything to drink in the middle of nowhere, how not to bring enough clothes when there’s a block 50mph head wind all day and hailstones like marbles, how to book a room in a pub so dirty it makes the scene with the toilet from trainspotting look like the Ritz, and may, many more self imposed cock ups, AND Dec ...
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North Wales Coastal Route via NCR 5, Day 1 Chester to Conwy

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  It’s been a while! With work, new pup and a house deciding to fall apart seemingly weekly, it’s been tough to try and get a couple of days together to get away, and even tough to just get on the bike! I’ve done a grand total of just over 100 miles this year, all on the Brompton, so when the potential chance came to have a couple of days away I wanted something not too taxing or hilly (we’ll come to that!), somewhere I could get to and back from in decent time and somewhere by the sea. Having been on holiday exclusively in Conwy from the ages of 3-16 at Gorse Hill caravan park, I realised I’d never really cycled in North Wales despite working there lots for The Original Factory Shop (we’ll get to that as well!) so a quick google and it looked like National Cycle Route 5 looked just the job, hugging the North Wales coast (oh no it doesn’t!) across the Menai Bridge, on to Anglesey ending up at Holyhead. 120ish miles over 2 days and as it’s by the coast, it’s bound to be flat, what c...
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