yeah, I only live about 10 miles from hamsterly...in fact I've cycled there myself...

I do a lot of walking where I live tho...

when I lived up at newcastle, ironically I used to cycle down where I now live - waskerly way, deerness valley, derwnt walk, hexhamshire common etc...in fact, one route (when I lived in jesmond) was to cycle along the coast road to north shields, hop on the ferry to south shields, go down to sunderland, then along the river wear to fatfield, then onto consett and finsih off on the derwent walk and back to newcastle...a nice 65 miles!

I used to hop on a train to hexham, then cycle upto whitley chapel and cycle over the moors to sparty lea and back...beautiful....now I get my kicks from the amazing scenery when I drive home from work...stunning

my house is 5 min (less than 1 mile) from - north pennines, derwent valley and weardale itself...tho I'm classified as being county durham!