First ride

As Easter was always the third most important spring holiday for me - it was in the shadow of my name-day (19 March) and the amazing post-communist 1st of May celebration - I decided to do a bike ride, publish the first post of this blog, watch some Family Guy and wish happy Easter when it was all done.

Looking up the possible routes for cycle training in the surroundings of Cardiff, the combination of Sultan the Pit Pony and Caerphilly Castle turned out to be perfect for an Easter ride.

There is a very rich network of cycling roads in Wales and they're all available on Sustrans' website.

Routes 8 and 4 are the ones to look out for to get to the "Leaning Tower" of Caerphilly and to Sultan, the largest pony in Europe. Even if you are infallible with maps, you can never plan over 50 kilometres - the weather can always surprise you. Our's was over 50 kilometres.

leaning like a tower

and leaning like a tower

So, we had some wrong turns as well as some thunder and lightning. We couldn't make it to the land-pony, but it was still worth it as that was Hannah's first cycling holiday and she is already looking for an upgraded bike for her next ones.