Carlsberg don't do cycle-commutes...

psychle

... but if they did...

2nd attempt at my new commute this morning, this time with the main cycle before I got on the train, including six miles along a rural canal towpath.

No roads, no buildings, no people. Just swans, ducks, deer, a heron pacing me as he glided over the glass-like water surface and on the far bank some white horses emerging through the mist-enshrouded foliage.

Ok, there was a slight headwind and the towpath surface is awful, but still, not too shabby.

GEPC

I wish there was a route into central London like that!

snooks

GEPC wrote:

I wish there was a route into central London like that!

Yeah, if the Thames was straight, and didn't wobbly round like the local drunk, it would make the commute from Twickenham to town a lot easier.With less traffic, on a nice morning it would be magic...Though they'd have to sort it out that bikes going in go on one bank and those going out go on the other!!

Belv

I had a day like that earlier in the week (minus the scenery), it put a smile on my face that wouldn't go away.

Jamey

I think it must have been a combination of it being a Friday plus slightly nicer weather today as my commute in was decent too. Started out fast, flagged a little in the middle but then blitzed the last third.

Keiron Curtis

psychle wrote:

... but if they did...

2nd attempt at my new commute this morning, this time with the main cycle before I got on the train, including six miles along a rural canal towpath.

No roads, no buildings, no people. Just swans, ducks, deer, a heron pacing me as he glided over the glass-like water surface and on the far bank some white horses emerging through the mist-enshrouded foliage.

Ok, there was a slight headwind and the towpath surface is awful, but still, not too shabby.

Sounds like cycle commuter's heaven to me.

A - W

Where's the pics?

dirk_van_gently

When it's good, it's very good :P

windbreaker

Is it the Union Canal? I sometimes take the canal into Edinburgh from Almondell Country Park. It can be lovely, especailly heading out here to Livingston on a summer morning. Tonight its a lovely sunny summer (?) evening. If I finish early, maybe by 7pm, I'll take the canal back into Edinburgh. Fantastic.

I used to drive one day a week, but now I enjoy the cycle (and sometimes the train) so much I haven't driven for weeks. Aren't we cyclists lucky?

psychle

A - W wrote:

Where's the pics?

And I thought my poetic imagery would paint a vivid enough picture inside your head :P

It's a section of the Forth & Clyde canal, West of the Falkirk Wheel which passes underneath the A80, about here...
http://www.williemiller.co.uk/wp-content/forth-and-clyde-canal-near-kilsyth.jpg

Coincidentally, traffic news this morning said the A80 was at a standstill because there was a dead deer on the cariageway :shock:

Surf-Matt

I cycle along this river:



Past this cathedral:



and into this valley:



and then back to this view at home:



which is nice.

Clever Pun

They certainly haven't done any the last couple of days