Day Five - Amble to Durham

Our youngest rider is a teenager and the eldest is 70 but we all managed the 60-plus miles of cycling between Amble and Durham.

It was a long and tiring ride from Amble to Newcastle along the coastal route. Two riders from the Durham Peace Action Group were along for the day and several more joined us en route.

Progress was slightly slower than planned due to several punctures along the way so we were late arriving in Newcastle. We made a colourful and noisy picture as we pedalled across the Millennium Bridge to Gateshead before enjoying a late lunch sitting in front of the Baltic Centre.

The ride to Durham was hard as we were all quite tired and some of us were a bit sunburnt from all the wind and sun. (We have been lucky so far and not had any rain).

Eventually we arrived in Durham to a super welcome reception from Durham Peace Action Group
and local MP Roberta Blackburn-Woods. We then went to the Palace Green and met David Kennedy, Canon of Durham, who welcomed both cyclists and their bicycles into the Cathedral!


Dinner was a delicious pot luck and during the evening we had the opportunity to meet some of the members of the local Palestinian Solidarity Group. We watched the film 'Israel's Secret Weapon' and then updated everyone on Mordechai's current situation.

Accommodation for the evening was at St Chad's, one of the colleges within Durham University.