first trip blog

Hi everyone this is my first blog for a while and my first blog for me and dad's big trip. Today we started at 6am it was raining heavily so dad decided we should go by train to Paddington. So we cycled to Stratford to take the tube.

When we got to Paddington station Loong and my mum were waiting there for us. We said good bye and me and dad got on the train for Exeter the journey took 2hours I slept the whole journey.

At Exeter we visited diagon alley and the leaky cauldron next we cycled to Newton Abbot to meet the people to give us a place to stay for the night. We waited for a few hours and explored in the village while we waited for their train they were arriving on. The two boys arrived called Ashley and James they cycled with us to their house three miles away which is very nice. They made a delicious dinner for us and we ate with them they're very kind and it's really fun place up the hill where it is.

Lewis

First climb?

Steep in Devon ...Thanks for card Loong.

7.15 paddington

It must  be a bear

The bit to exeter

5 am start taken its toll.
Rain in London.... good to get away.
Train clean and tidy.
Thanks for tessi and dee for seeing us off at Paddington and getting the breakfast in.

Sunshine , warm, what could possibly go wrong!

Forecast rain of course.
Split the new cycle bag. Thrown out any comforts.

The final preparations

The panic...
Throwing out all the excess luxury travel items to keep the weight down.
Sorting the final 15 places to stay. (we have 39 amazing and thanks)
Chasing up the maybe's.
Feeling nervous..... can we do it.
The weather????
Midges in Scotland
saying goodbye to school mates.
Getting all the work done

Make sure Wanstead park carries on its road to recovery.
Hopefully charity number by the city corporation set up:- for those that  can only give to registered charities. Thanks for your support for such a great community resource that needs attention. www.wansteadpark.org.uk

Finalising the daily routes (bound to change but thats the fun bit.)

Eating to much.

Preparation round up

Sorted a 5 day coast to coast Whitehaven to south Sheilds with Mike and Oliver Brett. All went well (about 150 miles) maybe a few more socks and gloves plus more video games!!.
Dad says loads of people have agreed to put us up. 25 already only 33 more needed. latest is scout camp in Southport. Thanks to everyone look forward to seeing you all.