Didcot parkway 200km Audax

Join me on a ride out to Didcot and its railway station for a meander through Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

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Hello welcome to a new video Welcome to MCH Hampton common uh so this is uh M hampson common common land and it’s uh butted up against uh another piece of common land called Rod common so that would have been the first uh video clip you saw me

Coming up there Hill up into Rod Brom then coming across mintion Hampton common and I’m stopped here to do my intro today because everybody in there dog is out a bit of sunshine and I don’t blame him it’s lovely warm it feel Spring Light so uh yeah so I’m off to did cot

Today nowhere exotic sorry if you live in did cot but it’s not um I’m back just to uh just to have a Target frame for anyway I’ll spit you in a Bit [Laughter] La Well this is uh near to charington Lake which is just right the corner and uh I’ve just come down uh past Mion Hampton’s new golf course the Pringle jumpers were out in for us today just through this little bit of a flooded thing it’s coming off the Hillside and straight across the road

And down into and then off into the uh Lake it’s a glorious day it’s very spring like I feel like so that’s charrington Lake down There La well the building I’m not sure if you can see the chimneys on top that is the temp’s head Pub I’m not sure if it’s still a pub but it was and uh it was thought to be uh around here the source of the river terms um that’s been

Disproven re you know reasonably recently and it’s further 15 Mi Northeast of here now if not a little bit further so uh yeah this is uh Tam’s head um so I’m off towards uh kembo now heading east might stop and sayy for a coffee here we are in uh far

England bit nicer than when when while he was here on the uh for fat fested 500 40 miles done so we’re third of the way around uh what that just under 3 hours so uh yeah progress is good I didn’t stop in say for a coffee I

Thought I’d get a few miles under the wheels before doing that sort of thing why is this a new uh way out of paring done for me but uh it’s a bit of a drag out town and it is on the ridge to be honest but uh you know uh it’s afforded this

View and I can see the uh the mass that is above Spar which is sort of on my route back so I know that that Ro that rout that that Ridge is my uh route back towards Windon Well here we are did cop Parkway railway station not as uh evocative as Stonehenge from the other day but uh it’s today’s uh point on the map to uh get to and I’m off up this road now heading in the general direction of Swinden well a little shower blowing through still a little bit of sunshine in this general direction though is the direction I’m going so fingers crossed that there if you can see it is uh a thinkon white horse it looks like they’ve painted it recently it’s quite

White anyway I got a few more miles in this direction and then it’s dropping down to Metropolis s swindling H folks so you joined me just on the outskirt it’s a swind in now just uh in a the bridge above me is the a uh 419 and the forward it’s about half a

Mile to my left so uh yeah that that last bit was quite tough it was uh headwind and it’s it was up and down nothing massive but it’s just enough to where you at you know anyway let’s go and get our sing out way and I’ll speak to you other side

Good thing about following these bike paths you get sights like this look at all these crocuses so I’ve come through old town in swinden spoted this petrol station well do you know what I’ll get something to eat here and I’m basically 2/3 of the way rain this a if if I haven’t said

That and um yeah so I just thought i’ stop here chicken Tika pasty thing I’m on a psychopath on the way out of Swindon now I’m a southern flyer anyway this V it hasn’t dispelled my uh my inner uh view of Swindon has been wi’s armpit however it does have some really

Good B paths so uh that does elevate it a little bit from uh hole anyway just had a coffee you have to forgive me I’ll speak to you in a bit but uh daylight is is good now it’s gone 5:00 well not really sure

Where I am in general but I do know when I win the lottery I should be visiting either of those guys we dick love it [Applause] Ferrari see you when I win the lottery anyway uh as I was saying going through this industrial place I can hear

The Roar of the uh the M4 front of me anyway put the camera away because uh got do a bit of maneuvering here oh I know this place I did a course here once the guy doing the course was a ex Army aircore helicopter pilot I think

Even better than night with some sort of test pilot and in instead of teaching us what he was me be doing he was just telling us stories about I didn’t even pass the holiday in express that was would know that been about 7 years ago something like that last VES a

Daylight yeah the last message is a daylight I said just now it’s very noticeable uh you know the the days are drawing out a bit now which is good I think it’s 2 minutes a day now or something like that anyway don’t know if you can see it

Uh I can’t see it on the uh ply little uh screen on the back of the camera but uh lights staying there are chipping them we go off down this uh steep hill now and uh head to of Northwest I’m in Su bener which is just a few miles away from uh

Chippingham and uh yeah I’m just heading Northwest from here back home up to uh mrey and then e St gray and then the horrible dragy climb all the way the one I went up the other day uh to uh well sort of between King’s coat and nfield

And then uh the uh break the S barrier down froster hill if you can see me better this way sorry blame my mother bless her uh yeah so uh I have to confess that uh this is my third 208 days so I did the uh uh Ben Island last

We did the uh Stonehenge one on Wednesday and then this is Sunday the uh whatever it it’s 11th something like that so uh yeah it’s h my legs are uh complaining a little bit now anyway easy week next week so I’m not planning on doing a an Alla next weekend

Going to do a going to take my mom and dad for a I trip to a garden center somewhere so uh they like that sort of thing anyway let’s uh keep going time’s getting on a bit now so uh I want to just keep moving really and uh I’ll

Speak to you in a bit good evening folks here I am back at the lazy Goose another 200 ticked off so I think I last spoke to you at Su Bender and uh climbed up out of something V over the motorway the road was flooded

And uh I walked up the uh the bridge on the right it’s so water loged that I got my wet feet so now I’ve had wet feet all the way from there and my toes are like box of ice anyway not the most exciting uh 200

I’ve ever done but uh still uh 200 km in the Bank of fitness um yeah so that’s that ticked off it’s one of those routes what I’ve done you know and you think well I won’t be doing that one again so uh just to let you know CU I keep

Forgetting to mention I got a six day uh tour at the end of March the week before Easter uh so uh yeah that’ll be uh going out to Har across on the ferry to the hook of and to Rotterdam antwork uh Brussels gent C and back into England so

Uh if you’re wondering what that is in kilometers it’s just under a thousand in in in six days so uh hence why I’ve been doing quite a lot of these 200s anyway my toes are complaining so I’m going to go and I shall see you on the next one thanks