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The Isle of sheppey is very pretty but I do not recommend cycling there
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Met da boi @suhansr in the morning
Disaster strikes as the good mates have a collision, in Goodmayes, and suhan bike has to go to the repair shop :(
We have to split up, suhan does a 32k run back to tooting, I decide I'd rather go to the Kent coast than Southend as originally planned
I cycle down under the Thames via Woolwich and Google maps takes me on this horrendous A road on the way to the m25 at dartford, suddenly the most horrible storm and actual hailstones
Sun comes out again as I go over the m25, the wind stays though
View of the medway as it joins the Thames estuary
Saw a few of these cone houses with spinning hats, they love them in Kent it would appear
It's once again really windy by the time I get to sheppey. Sheppey is nice but the people on the roads go 60 in a 40 zone and 70 in a 50 and beep at you for being on the road even though there are no cycle paths other than the road
Then of course, the island's star attraction
The tide is going out so you can't swim but you can dip your feet in some muddy water. There's nobody hanging out at the beach just groups ppl in fleeces going for walks and some tents pitched in the dunes. Different to what I expected
There's a sign so you have to, I don't make the rules
And then to begin the cycle back where the wind is now blowing directly at me the whole way home
Rochester Castle on the way back, at this point I wish I had brought a hat as I'm about to spend the next 20 miles cycling directly towards the setting sun
I don't think you can really make it out from this pic but the moment I'd just got back inside the m25 and although apparently it going to be another 2 hours til I'm home I can see the shard, which is only a teeny further west than my house
The last bit of me cycling in the dark no pics cos thought my phone was going to die meaning I would have no Google maps and no Strava to tell me how far I'd gone but honestly why did Google send me on the horrible route it did
And after about a hundred miles my right knee was like na I'm done so delighted to announce I appear to have given myself arthritis. Anyway, that was a sort of fun day but not in a rush to repeat it, please validate me with likes thanks everyone xox
