In April, I cycled from Bristol to the Peak District. Sadly the footage from Shugborough Estate to the Peaks was lost when my computer crashed a few weeks ago, but I loved cycling through the midlands, especially the Wye Valley! My day off cycling around Telford will be up as its own video in the coming weeks.
As I'm uploading, I realise I didn't give (or cut out) context re: the house I visit in Upper Welland. That was my late grandparents' house after retirement and it's the house we went to for Christmas most years, where we played the dictionary game in the living room, and where my granny and I would watch the news together at 6am with a cup of tea.
This vid has none of the extra elements I loved including in the Cornwall to Land's End video -- no handwritten location names, no intertextuality, etc. I think that's because as I was editing I was so mindful of the very different place I was in after that long winter. I experienced the cycle so differently to the previous one. I certainly gravitated to ruin after ruin and sought out the rolling country roads wherever I could. I paused more, allowed myself to hop on the train on one of the days, and realised this was about coming back to my body in more ways than one.
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