Saturday, 30th June, 2012

Newcastle to Swainby - 60 miles
After a heavy night of celebrations with Jack and the members of the Blakelaw working mens club in Newcastle, we left Jack in the safe hands of his family to recover.
With a sore head, myself, Denise (the silent assasin) and Dave went south, then north, west and then South again.
In short, we got hopelesly lost leaving Wylam, because i had no map and the fact we had left Julian behind, whose GPS had provided much needed back-up when needed.
Eventually, after several wrong turns and brutal hills around the Stanley area, we got going and rode on through a thunder storm and rain to reach my brothers house in Swainby at 6pm, where we were royally looked after.