Are You Going to Scsrboro' Fair...?

Dover - Shetland Day 15
Bridlington - Whitby

Distance cycled: today 68.4km, total 1101.2km
Ascent: today 601m, total 5652m

Highlight: equal shortest day distance-wise, more than half of which was on an old railway line - always less stress when not cycling on roads. Also my earliest arrival, just in time to see Murray lose the 3rd set. All came good when he closed it out in the 4th. Have adjusted my plans to ensure I will be in front of a TV on Sunday!

Lowlight: a clammy sea mist shrouded what would have been spectacular seaviews from
the Scarborough to Whitby cycle track.

What else? The trains on the disused Whitby - Scarborough line apparently often needed to take several runs at it to complete the steep ascent going south. Must have been interesting to set the timetable! Whitby, my destination, is the birthplace of my all time favourite historical figure, Captain Cook. His achievements exploring and charting massive chunks of the world in a diddly little boat are just about unparalleled by any other explorer in my view. And he was also the first ever rating to be commissioned as an officer in the Royal Navy.

Photo: colourful example in Scarborough of one of the 1000 Millennium Mileposts to be found on the National Cycle Routes, this one seemingly in keeping with the heavily graffitied backdrop.