Cycle Tour The Channel Tour

In the morning overcast but later it brightened up with lots of sun. Warm temperatures all day, in the afternoon and evening fairly hot. Light winds without any significance.

Passed Littlehampton town - a stretch wheeling our bikes on a stony beach to Elmer - shopped for lunch at Elmer - Bognor Regis promenade with less tourists on an overcast Monday - on a secondary road in some traffic away from the coast - a lovely gravel path along a canal into Chichester, where we had our lunch on a bench - a look at the town of Chichester with a beautiful cathedral and a medieval town wall - a curvy route across a railway bridge through Fishbourne - on good cycle lanes along a main road through Emsworth and Havant - in Havant we turned south towards Hayling island - across the bridge and along a splendid gravel path in perfect nature on the island - big disappointment at Hayling ferry as the ferry was out of service - We have some beers, arrange the hotel accomodation and tickets for tomorrows ferry trip to France and a bike trip to the sea where I have a bath - back the same bike path to Havant - splendid cycle highway along a motorway along the bay and on into the city of Portsmouth - an eating break af KFC - some confusion through Pompey but we find our hotel easily enough - an evening in good old Pompey.