Ride’s End: The Wear, Sunderland (C2C Day 7)
We expected to finish our Coast to Coast ride on Friday night, but after helping out the striking miners at Beamish, then dealing with a puncture, we ended up rolling up at the Premier Inn Sunderland in the dark and it didn’t seem like such a good idea. We didn’t see much of the start in Workington due to freezing fog and didn’t fancy finishing in the cold and dark. So we waited till Sunday morning, when the sun finally showed up in Sunderland, making for a glorious last few miles to find the official finish point.
Ready to finish after a good night’s sleep
By Sunday morning we were relaxed and raring to go after a great nights’s sleep
Sunderland lives up to its sunny name
It was a beautiful sunny winter’s morning, perfect for a ride along the River Wear
And there was plenty of interest in the last four miles to make a day of it!
It’s sculptures all the way
This being a Sunday in Sunderland,
the Sun had to make an appearance
Along with many interesting sculptures reflecting the areas industrial heritage
Still time to stop and think
There was time for meditation over the weeks achievements
And time to hang out in other ways too
Before finding the C2C route end
After a little asking around we found out
we’d already been hanging out at the C sculpture
that marks the official end of the route.
Time for one last ritual
Which only left one other thing to do
Sea to Sea. Coast to Coast. C2C. Mission Accomplished.
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See more of our Winter Coast to Coast (C2C) Photo Journals
- Are you a purist or not bothered?
- Day 1: Setting Out: Workington to Cockermouth
- Day 2: Northern Lakes: Over Whinlatter and into Keswick
- Day 3: In the Shadow of Blencathra: Keswick to Penrith
- Day 4: Goodbye Lakes, Hello Pennines: Penrith to Hartside Summit and Alston
- Day 5: Over the Pennines: Nenthead to Allenhead and onto Consett
- Day 6: Welcome to the North East: Consett to Beamish & Sunderland
- Day 7: The end of the ride: Along the Wear in Sunderland
Glad you had such a glorious end to the week.well done to you all. Sorry you had so many punctures. We ride with schwalbe marathon plus tyres and hardly ever have punctures.
Brenda in the Boro
Brenda, Thanks. One of our punctures was on a Marathon Exped grade tyre, but the glass in the North East is tougher still than those!
I live in the NE so that,s how I discovered the Marathon plus – there,s glass everywhere!!BTW how did you get back to Cumbria with all yur tandems and the other bike and trailer. We could do it in the 80’s but apparently you can’t take a tandem on the trains now. We had enough trouble getting 2 bikes to Cornwall.
We did it the hard way, no not cycling back, but went back on the train without bikes to retrieve the car, then drove back again to retrieve the bikes. Madness? No, that’s cycling the C2C in winter.
What a great week. Glad you ended in sunshine after the mixed fog and murk earlier in the week.
Graham
Thanks Graham! It was all powered by flapjack.
hi stuart brenda in the boro is my mam check out my facebook blog have some write ups of our trips last year middlesbrough to norwich and back 800 mils in 3 weeks
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