Day 5 – York/Pocklington to Hull

Day 5 – York/Pocklington to Hull

We decided to leave the last day as a short day so if there were any issues with the bikes etc we would have time to fix it before the ferry at 4pm. As it turned out there were no issues (apart from my tyres being on the soft side).

We headed out of Pocklington through their Tuesday market day – it looks like there is a market every day? Onwards to Market Weighton where we made a pit stop for me to get some nail scissors (what a woos? Eh!).



The photo to the left is in a place called North Newbold - very picturesque.
Again the sun was shining and very little if no wind at all. Stopped in a little village called Little Weighton – can of juice consumed and we were off again, only to be held up by a tractor for the best part of a mile.












Into Hull we went and stopped outside Hull Univeristy and asked a chap to take a picture of us – wish we hadn’t, he talked for Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales etc etc etc. half an hour later he was still talking and Phil admitted he had shut his eyes behind his dark glasses and gone to sleep standing up – none of us really understood what he was talking about and as soon as the photo was taken we made a sharp exit.










Phil needed a haircut so we were now on the look out for a barbers (I’m sure he wanted it cut to cut the wind resistance down – a bit late for that.) He was absolutely delighted – it cost him a fiver.

Cycled into the centre of Hull and had a Big Mac meal with a hot caramel sundae to ply the calories back on that we had just got rid off. Then along to a park area for a lie down to recover before setting off for the port. We had another ice-cream as there was a stall selling them for only 50p - bargain!

20 mins later and we had finally made it to the port. Yahoo! Half way to Paris!

Next up Zeebrugge (Belgium) to Lille (France).

Graeme & Phil

The first bit of video shows Graeme cycling through the town of Market Weighton, followed by both Graeme & Phil cycling through North Newbold on route to Little Weighton and Hull itself.