Mike and I have been full of indecisiveness for the last two weeks due to the stupid weather (which basically hasn’t stopped raining).

First we were to cycle to Scotland and waited for the first fine day to leave. When no fine day came we decided to go to Malaysia and visit Susan, but flights too expensive. We then decided spend a month touring America on our way home. Then the sun came out for 5 minutes and we decided the bike ride was back on.

Then the rain came again and the temperature dropped to about 10 degrees. This spurred us a book a holiday in warm and sunny Turkey. I then heard horror stories about the flights – cramped conditions, 13 hour delays, 5 hours sitting on the runway while the pilot tries to fix a fault with the door, emergency evacuations at Gatwick via the slides, and this was all in the last two weeks! I promptly cancelled our online booking and thankfully we got all our money back.

Yesterday it stopped raining and we went for a cycle ride to Hengisbury Head which is a 24 km round trip along the coast. There was a nicely marked cycle route along the coast to Dover and there is a sunny day coming up on Tuesday (according the the weather map). So decision made – we will cycle along the coast to Dover, then either catch the train back to Bournemouth or catch the ferry to France and try and pick up the Rhine cycle route.

Really windy and the seas are rough