Autumn is my favourite cycling season. You can´t beat the colours and the roads are much more quiet than on your average summer day. Here in the UK, the temperatures are still very reasonable...so what's not to like?
With that in mind, we got some cheap tickets to Sheffield and cycled over to the Peak District National Park for a three day relaxing camping trip. It was rather wet and windy half of the time, but we also got some sun on our third and last day. Rather than boring you with more text...I will just leave you with some pictures.
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| Leaving Sheffield on the Ringinglow Road - up to 400 m in the fog, luckily there's an off-road path most of the way |
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| After we set up camp, we rode up to Stanage Edge. Can't beat those autumnal colours! |
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| The famous rocky ridge in the background as we climb out of North Lees Campsite |
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| Leaving the ridge |
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| Ladybower reservoir |
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| The promised rain about to hit, but then we got the rainbow |
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| Pissing it down meant some hiking |
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| On top of Stanage Ridge with strong winds and lots of rain |
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| After a bad night storm, we woke up to this |
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| Nightime at the campsite - trying to be creative! |
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| Monday morning was sunny and crisp, allowing us to do a 50 km hilly route |
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| The climb up to Mam Tor, after leaving Castleton. At least 20% inclines! |
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| Mam Tor |
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| Blue skies as we descend Mam Tor |
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| Heading back to Hathersage |
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| Quiet roads all around |
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| About to break out camp - hard to believe we were back in London 3 hour after this! |
*Note to all of you that travel by train: 1) trans out of London early Saturday morning can be really cheap, even if booked not so far in advance (three days in our case), 2) sometimes it is cheaper to buy two singles than the whole journey as one combined ticket (e.g. London to Sheffield and then Sheffield to Hathersage was way cheaper than a combined ticket) and 3) if you return on the Monday night, then you can get bargain prices...
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