The Sea-to-Sea (C2C)

Over three what felt like very long days, Peter Morgan and I, Peter Hobley, embarked on a bicycle ride from Whitehaven in Cumbria to Tynemouth in Newcastle: the C2C.

Here you can read about our trip in the day-by-day diary. For those who may be planning a similar trip, hopefully our experiences will inspire, guide and forewarn you.

Let's hope we don't deter you!

Note: Although it's been a while since we did this in 2008(!), I've updated the site for 2024 and added notes if I've discovered changes.

Why did we do it?

Why not! It's something that any cycling enthusiast has heard of and would like to do some day.

We're always saying we'll get round to these things eventually, so in late 2007 we decided we'd be going for the C2C in 2008. We started planning with the Sustrans C2C map and some rather helpful advice from the C2C guide.