The Great Tour - coming in 2012

Back in the summer of 2010, a group of cyclists set off from Seaton in Devon on a journey that would take them around the coast of England, Scotland and Wales over the next 64 days, eventually arriving back in Seaton after an amazing tour of over 6000km.

The event was called THE GREAT TOUR, and was the concept of the director of the TOUR OF BRITAIN cycle race: Hugh Roberts.
The tour will be back in 2012, and I had a meeting two weeks ago in London to discuss some of the possible geography crossovers that the tour offers. It's a chance to explore the coast of the British Isles, perhaps focussing on one of the 64 little windows into the coast which each day represents....

For example, Leg no. 11 takes the cyclists along the Norfolk coast, and through Wells next the Sea. I spent some time on the beach there earlier this week, and it's a glorious spot....

For a flavour of the tour, and the range of landscapes that the cyclists passed through, visit the YOUTUBE CHANNEL page which has lots of short videos of the daily stages.

More to come on this later in the year...


Image: Alan Parkinson