Whilst Danielle and Rowan went off on the tandem for a town>swim>reading group day, I headed for Route 66. That's the Sustrans cycle route 66. It heads east from York and goes through suitably desolate landscapes. I left it and went across the Yorkshire Wolds to Filey, which is a seaside town. It was a good ride. The Wolds are a strangely lonely landscape of chalk hills with steep dry valleys and isolated villages with names like Wetwang and Fridaythorpe. In many ways it is the loneliest part of Yorkshire, there is no real tourism here. If the Wolds were within 50 miles of London they would be hugely popular. Here they pale in comparison to the North York Moors and the Dales. That's why I love them.
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