THE PLAN

Empty keyring - I don't need a room anymore - just the road!

Cymru Cycle starts on Monday, the 5th of May.
Here's THE PLAN:

Day 1

  Cardiff - Brecon (50 miles / 80,4 kilometres)

Day 2

  Brecon - Machynlleth (72,8 miles / 117 kilometres)

Day 3

  Machynlleth - Caernarfon (60,8 miles / 97,8 kilometres)

Day 4

  Caernarfon - Holyhead - Caernarfon ( 66,1 / 106 kilometres)

Day 5

  Caernarfon - Machynlleth (72,8 miles / 117 kilometres)

Day 6

  Machynlleth - Felinwynt (53,9 miles / 86,7 kilometres )

Day 7

  Felinwynt - St. David's - Haverfordwest (60,3 miles / 97,1 kilometres)

Day 8

  Haverfordwest - Llanelli (51,2 miles / 82,4 kilometres)

Day 9

  Llanelli - Cardiff (60,9 miles / 98 kilometres)

+ one wild card rest-day when I want (or need!!!) one.

At the Rocky statue in Žitište, Serbia on a cycle tour in 2011

After receiving lots of good luck wishes from family and friends, and getting amazing support and sponsorship from my workplace, Café Junior, the time had come to say thanks to all of them, and to my very special Hannah and her family for their kindness (especially for lending me a bicycle - quite an important part of the trip). 

Your help will be a very good downwind up the hills!

I'll keep you updated from the valleys!

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.