Testing the new bike and my first experience of a compost toilet!

So my Touring bike for the Trans South America Trip arrived in August 2019, for my birthday. So we needed to test it out. Sportingly, our inspirational friends Claire and Pete agreed to join us on a weekend jaunt to Hay on Wye. I say inspirational, because I think their trip through France in 2018, with only what they could carry on their bikes, inspired David to think we could do the same in South America! I hope you as the reader, are getting an idea of what I am having to manage in my role as Mrs Stoyle!

We took the train to Worcester and then cycled to Hay on Wye. Pitched our tent at a campsite on the edge of town - a field with a shower in a shack and a compost toilet. A magnificent curry in Hay in the evening and a night under canvas. It didn't rain - much. I was pleased to find a more conventional sanitary block on the other side of the hedge in the morning! We rode home down the Wye valley - glorious.

Bike was lovely too!