Author Archives: Martin

On the “Jurassic Coast” of the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Coastline.

The famous Clifton Suspension bridge was opened 150 years ago, on December 8th. An equally-impressive (in a different way) bridge has carried the M5 motorway from Birmingham to Exeter for forty years, and also passes over the River Avon, further downstream, … Continue reading →

Cycling from Brean to Highbridge, partly along the beach (that’s Sally’s tyre tracks in the sand).

We spent the day in Ledbury and Hereford. Mainly to see the famous Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral, where we also visited the Chained Library.

More cycling, this time along the northern side of the Severn estuary, or is it the Bristol Channel? We cycled as far as the Transporter Bridge at Newport (built 1902), which gave me the opportunity to take yet more pictures of … Continue reading →

Remember steam trains? They were dirty, slow and huge contributors to the greenhouse effect. But they were spectacular and much-loved, and, to be fair, no-one had heard of the greenhouse effect in the ‘fifties and ‘sixties. Some of the railway lines … Continue reading →

The Kennet and Avon canal links the two rivers in it’s name, and, at its northern end, the Thames. We cycled part of the tow path recently after visiting the two tunnels near Bath. Today, we cycled from the Dundas … Continue reading →