Evidence of yesterday’s ride to see my brother. I went with Martin and we cycled down to the old Severn Bridge and across to Chepstow. Made amazingly good time and we were have coffee and of course cake after an hour and half cycling. It is a horrible climb out of Chepstow and our first set back happened we lost Sustrans Route 4 which should of taken us a decent fairly traffic free route to Newport. We eventually got to Newport for a well earned lunch and we found Sustrans 4 out of the City. Sadly we lost it again and our ride to Caerphilly was a lot more up and down than it should of been. My language wasn’t repeatable when I embarked on the final climb!

Successfully met brother Mike by the Tommy Cooper statue in front of the imposing Caerphilly Castle. See the picture of the intrepid cyclists above!

We were supposed to catch the train from Taffs Wells but major engineering work meant we had to cycle down the Taff Trail to Cardiff. Led by our Mike we thoroughly enjoyed the Taff Trail – it was off road and we felt quite smug when we glimpsed across the standstill traffic on the A470! One hiccup was after we boarded the train I managed to lose my train ticket as we fixed our bikes in the guard’s van – the guard was lovely when checking tickets and later came back to give me my lost ticket!

A great day!!!