Dover to Cape Wrath 2005 - Ben & Graham Brodie

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We drove up from Devon in a hire car, leaving around luchtime on the Sunday. After a stop to meet friends in Tunbridge Wells we arrived in Dover around 9pm, dumped the car at the garage in the Ferry Port and assembled all the bikes and went of to find Dover Youth Hostel.

It was in a better state than 1987, but the bike shed was still a bit a lean to affair, and a wade through tons of rubbish to get to the racks, and the door was fairly insecure!

Toyota Corolla VERSA hire car - this proved ideal - the bikes went upright in the back with carseats down and front wheels out.

Bikes packed ready to set out from Devon on the Saturday

	Mon 1st August dawned grey but dry. At 9.30 we left Dover Youth Hostel and rode down to the Hover Terminal to commence our journey. As we left the town we felt the first spots of rain, but we got to Canterbury still fairly dry. We used roads running parallel to and part of the A2.
Outside Dover Youth Hostel.	GOOGLE MAP OF DOVER

White cliffs of Dover.

Click Camera for more images of the port of DOVER.

	CANTERBURY: Canterbury is a fine City, but seemed surprisingly bike-unfriendly. Prohibition and pedestrianisation everywhere, and no real signage as to how to get in and out of the place. We ended up walking through the middle and then going round in a circle. A stop at the fudge shop in town resulted in an excessive purchase of the caramel variety! By the time we exited the City the rain started to get going.

	The rain was really heavy, and it was a very unpleasant couple of miles out on the main roads before we could get away in the lanes, and on through Dunkirk to Faversham. The rain eased enough for us to sit outside Faversham Post Office and eat our picnic.

GOOGLE MAP OF CANTERBURY

White cliffs of Dover and castle in background.


Leaving Dover





First rest stop - Canterbury.	Fudge stop at Canterbury!