I'm from the Lincolnshire Fens, where everyone used to ride a bike when I was a lad.
I've just been on holiday to Australia, and passed through Port Lincoln, not far (in Aussie terms anyway) from Adelaide. Whilst in the Tourist Office, I looked at a map of the area on the wall, and there looking back at me were a few place names familiar to many a Lincolnshireman. Like Boston, Spilsby, Grantham and Louth - 21 in all. Mostly they were islands - said to have been named by Matthew Flinders' crew. I find it hard to believe that some of these small villages - small even by Lincolnshire terms - could have been home to his crew - villages like Lusby and Hareby even now are only a few houses.
Flinders was from Donington, near Boston, and was the first to circumnavigate Australia - but he's hardly known even in Lincolnshire, and yet in Australia there are banks, a river, universities and many streets named after him.
So the idea came to me to plan a ride taking in all these place names, and it works out at 195 miles. So, a 3 day recumbent trip in the spring beckons. There's a bit of a diversion in it as I have the opportunity to get a free BnB, but a Lincolnshireman would soon spot that and could effect his own shortcut there!
For any interested Yellerbellies:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26569687
