Friday, 21 March 2025

BIKING BIRDER I March 21st 2010 Cheddar Gorge and Up & Over to Chew Valley Reservoir

 On This Day - 2010    Biking Birder I






March 21st 2010

Shapwick NNR to Chew Valley Reservoir.

Highway Star            Deep Purple


            A day spent cycling the flat lands of the Avalon Marshes heading north, before the push up the winding road of Cheddar Gorge.


           Amazes me that such a small gorge is celebrated so much, small that is in comparison to other limestone gorges I have seen elsewhere, especially in France; the Ardeche for example and various gorges in La Corbiere, not to forget the immense Gorge du Tarn!



Ardeche 2007


          Back in the late Nineties my late and much missed wife, Karen, I and her two daughters, Claire and Sarah, had had a holiday at Brean Sands Pontins!

          One of our days out was spent exploring the caves at both Wookey Hole and Cheddar Gorge.







          The pseudo-Victorian photograph, taken at Wookey Hole, where we dressed up in suitably Victorian clothes and posed with strict instructions that no smiles were allowed and no movement either, remains a favourite.


My overnight accommodation was salubrious! Plenty of time to remember happy days when Karen wasn't as ill as she was later to become.



21.5 miles 

1066 feet up    869 feet down



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