25 June 2012

Norwich to Wisbech

A flat 66 miles across Norfolk: the first day of the Norwich to Chester cycle trip.

Route: Starting from Norwich along Sustrans Route 1 on a very muddy cycle path before leaving it for quicker small roads for coffee at Reepham (close to the conjoined churches of St Michael’s and St Mary’s joined together; coffee sitting on the pavement outside a full 'Slice of Heaven' coffee shop). Then on small roads to reach the The Dabbling Duck, Great Massingham for lunch. Across rolling countryside before afternoon (cream) tea at the visitor centre on Green Quay in King’s Lynn and then very flat dull cycling - although past the amazing Saxon bell tower in West Walton - to reach Wisbech.

Conditions: warm although mainly cloudy; some sun later.

Pub: The Dabbling Duck, Great Massingham for Beeston Brewery Worth the Wait, Humpty Dumpty Reedham Gold and Rutland Queensberry House and The Red Lion on North Brink in Wisbech for Elgood’s Cambridge Bitter and 100-mile Daschund (raspberry).