{"id":17163,"date":"2017-10-19T22:51:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=17163"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:51:55","slug":"our-cycling-trip-to-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=17163","title":{"rendered":"Our cycling trip to Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Great North ride ended in Edinburgh a full 444 miles from <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\">Sally&#8217;<\/a>s back door. places we stayed at and distances travelled are:-<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRh5pxBIRn580gGIOZSOqkBIQCxJIphhqFsWX5U3GihINNbuEc-MHR4TGK-EY8uF-x5LAkJNG5WT1iH\/pubhtml?widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17164\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-14-at-08.18.03.png 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 The whole trip was very enjoyable\u00a0with reasonably kind weather a bit blowy in Yorkshire where I&#8217;m sorry to say the Esk Valley 30% hills, after the first couple, rather defeated us so we detoured onto the main A171 into Guisborough a surprisingly lovely market town with a good choice of eateries, unfortunately, the Gisborough Hall Hotel was very disappointing for Sally&#8217;s birthday. Another market town of note was Horncastle and the delightful refurbished Admiral Rodney Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Our stay on Holy Island was excellent too, so quiet when all the day trippers leave \ud83d\ude42 another highlight was remeeting John &amp; Charlotte over a lovely home cooked meal in Newcastle ( I first met them when I was biking around Cuba). Standing in front of the Angel of the North was inspiring too.<\/p>\n<p>After a very cross-country ride from Holy Island we bumped into Sally friends\u00a0 Cheryl &amp; Ash whilst we were watching the live\u00a0action of Netflix making the Outlaw King film in\u00a0 Berwick. Amazing\u00a0to see all the detail to convert the quayside back a few centuries, fortunately, we found the last remaining b&amp;b room in the town, winners of the TripAdvisor awards\u00a0last year too! The final days ride to Edinburgh saw our first punctures of the trip, one each.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh was excellent once the rain stopped and we managed a good walk up Arthurs Seat and a visit to the cornucopia of middle Eastern rugs etc in the aptly named Nomads Tent shop. My nephew&#8217;s recommendation of Mothers India Cafe was excellent perhaps the best-organised restaurant I&#8217;ve\u00a0ever been too.<\/p>\n<p>The trains home worked well and I think Sally is now sold on the idea of multi-day\u00a0biking carrying\u00a0your own stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Some pictures are here, please note more will be added later.<br \/>\n[FAG id=17169]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Great North ride ended in Edinburgh a full 444 miles from Sally&#8217;s back door. places we stayed at and distances travelled are:- \u00a0 The whole trip was very enjoyable\u00a0with reasonably kind weather a bit blowy in Yorkshire where I&#8217;m sorry to say the Esk Valley 30% hills, after the first couple, rather defeated us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-europe","category-north-sea-cycle-route"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}