Bank Holiday and sunshine! This great combination occurs in this country every hundred years or so, so after a leisurely breakfast and the paper I set off. Tyres pumped, for all of this is on road, helmet (dead ugly but necessary as all on-road and some pretty hairy descents, too), Ixus, money, mobile. I am not sure if cycling with a page torn out of an obsolete road atlas is such a good idea generally, but for this one, it will do.

The Ordnance Survey Grid reference for the start of the journey is NZ286141.