4.07.2026 Cycling to the old rail crossings.

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  Saturday 4th 56F/13C [6.30] Overcast, with sunny periods. Increasing cloud. 20C/68F on the room. 13.5C/55F in the greenhouse. All doors and windows closed. As temperatures dropped and the gales became silly. Setting a 30 year record.

 Up at 5.50 after a fairly quiet night. 

  Can I sneak in a ride today? I used to go to a charity shop. Only open on Saturdays and Mondays. About 13km away. 

 7.40 58F/14C. It really isn't warm outside. There is only a light breeze but it makes it chilly.    

12.15 Returning from a 30km ride to photograph progress on the new cycle path.  By riding along the lanes until I found the next crossing.

I was already very familiar with the entire area thanks to my years of tricycling. When I once managed 10,000miles/16,000km per year. 

I took 24 pictures. Which emphasizes the sheer number of road crossings. Ten in total today. This does not include all the earlier crossings nearer Assens and Ebberup.

Unfortunately the blog does not lend itself to many images on one page. So I'll have to post more of them over the next couple of days.  

 I ensured I took a pair of pictures. Looking east and west in opposite directions from the same crossing. The rails have not been lifted from the asphalt yet. The entire length of the rail track was once the preserve of pedal trolley hire. 

 Some lengths were more easily navigable on foot and were popular with dog walkers. Though the often rotting sleepers were an impediment to comfortable walking or cycling. I know because I tried.

While I was waiting for traffic to pass at one main road crossing. A pair of Red kites circled low overhead.

17.30 It started raining. Though only briefly. I shut the greenhouse skylights.

 Dinner was fish fingers with pasta, peas and tinned tomatoes.

 I washed up while it cooked.

 

 

 

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