Since 2014 I have cycled almost 70,000 miles including trips to Europe and a circumnavigation of Ireland. During these years I have cycled most of the way around the island of Britain and am now left only with the top left corner, north west Scotland and England down to the Welsh border where I ended my journey around the Welsh coast in 2020. So it’s time to complete the circuit, appropriate in the year that the King Charles III Coastal path has been opened. I shall get on a train at Bristol on 22nd May, spend the night in Inverness before another train to Thurso the following day and then I shall start cycling along the north coast of Scotland. Turning the corner, I’ll make my way south, doing a bit of island hopping on the way, before following the coast of Cumbria and Lancashire and, all being well, arriving in Chester 19 days later. A train from Chester to Westbury should see me home on 11th June.

I’m hoping to raise a bit of money for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. Now that may not be your local Air Ambulance but I hope you’ll think it’s a worthwhile cause. It’s reckoned to cost £3500 every time the helicopter goes up, so I hope that I’ll be able to raise enough for at least one journey. https://www.justgiving.com/page/chris-bailward?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL