It really is a beautiful cycle.... a beautiful metaphor too... cycling out of the city through the countryside down to the coast. It's mid-November, and it's 14 degrees! God bless the gulf stream!!
Living in Govan is absolutely perfect in terms of hooking up with trains or cycle paths to all the compass points around the city. On this particular trip, I take the train from Dumbreck to Paisley Canal (13 mins.), though it is a perfectly good cycle on the National Route.
Henry the Heron waiting for lunch on the River Gryfe...
Fields of Gold, passing Linwood and Brookfield.
Quarrier's Village with the Inverclyde Hills behind... A picture of pastoral serenity if ever there were one!
The bourgeois enclave of Kilmacolm...
40% I think it says, although someone has tried unsuccessfully to spray paint something over the 4 (I think with a 7)...
A pair of goosanders in the bay at Greenock (its partner was just out of picture)...
Greenock Harbour.
What can you say? A mere two hours cycle from Paisley and we're here, in front of the ocean and the mountains, confronting our greater stranger self.
Living in Govan is absolutely perfect in terms of hooking up with trains or cycle paths to all the compass points around the city. On this particular trip, I take the train from Dumbreck to Paisley Canal (13 mins.), though it is a perfectly good cycle on the National Route.
No dog, no pram, no ipod.... just a bicycle, a body, and an elemental mind.
Fields of Gold, passing Linwood and Brookfield.
Quarrier's Village with the Inverclyde Hills behind... A picture of pastoral serenity if ever there were one!
The bourgeois enclave of Kilmacolm...
40% I think it says, although someone has tried unsuccessfully to spray paint something over the 4 (I think with a 7)...
A pair of goosanders in the bay at Greenock (its partner was just out of picture)...
Greenock Harbour.
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