I love Brompton micro adventures, or mini adventures, close to home, cycling two days, one camp night, easily doable in a weekend. Big exotic trips are great, but little local trips are great too. I'm doing a series of local two-day bikepacking trips along the tributaries of the Thames on my Brompton with my tent, mostly camping wild.
This film is about cycling up the River Lea. I started in London's Docklands, where the Lea joins the Thames, and rode to its source, which is in Bedfordshire. It was a short, easy adventure - two days, with one tent night. The ride was about 75 miles (120km) long. I did just over 40 miles on the first day, and 35 miles on the second. On this trip, I had planned to camp in a campsite, rather than camp wild, because the big campsite just south of Hertford looked nice and I thought I'd test it. However, as you'll see, that went wrong. I ended up camping wild after all. To camp wild, I need a few extra things - basically a trowel, water bottles, and a bag for carrying the filled bottles - but they are small, light things, so I normally take them along anyway, just in case. So I was fine, and I loved my unexpected wild camp.
Like all my trips, this one was “slow travel”, looking at things, chatting with people, having coffee.
By the way, about value for money, obviously gear costs money. But once you've got the gear (and some of mine has lasted dozens of years) this sort of simple mini adventure, close to home, is a huge amount of pleasure for very little cost. I made my own food, and before I set off, I saw a cheap £3.90 "advance" train ticket for the journey home from Luton to London at about the right time of day, so I snapped that up. So, the actual cost of the trip was literally £3.90, ie less than US $5. And time-wise, this kind of adventure starts as soon as you step out of the front door, and at the end the train home took 26 minutes. So, within an hour of finishing the ride, I was sitting on the sofa at home again, having a cup of tea.
Anyway. There you go. Hope everyone is doing OK, and hope you enjoy the film!
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