I’m now spending a few days with Paul, a student of mine from back in the 2000s. He has bought a new bike and I took him on his first bike ride using and got him to navigate using a route I had created last night in RWGPS. I think he found it an eye-opener as to how different riding a bike is to driving a car to a location. The main reason being that when you plot a route in RWGPS it takes you along a safer route and there’s lots of gravel around here - old rail way lines after the coal industry - and no cars on them. You don’t go straight there, so you find places you never knew existed.
It was a good day to ride fairly cool the occasional spot of rain but very windy from the west. So we decided instead of riding back from Seaham (where we ended up on the East Coast) we caught the train back to Durham and then rode back to his place from there. A pretty good day out.