In Which Plans are Made for UK Adventures

Purchased at the bike shop, a bicycle map of Norwich.

I’m still finding my way around Norwich, England. My wife and I are to handle the school drop off Thursday morning, and there are two challenges: It may rain. And we may struggle to find our way back again.

Hopefully, the granddaughters will help us find their schools. If I were the kid, I might intentionally get my grandparents lost—“Oh, darn, can’t find the school today, guess I can’t go”—but, fortunately, I don’t think my granddaughters are either that devious or my wife and I that seriously directionally impaired. Then again, we do have a talent for getting lost.

And I’m set to begin another phase of my English adventures, too. Today in a bike shop, I scheduled to rent a bicycle next week. And my son-in-law leaves for a trip tomorrow, so before then I may be able to borrow his bike (I packed a new bicycle helmet for this vacation in the UK).

Map of Norwich, England, bike routes. Unlike many American cities, arranged in a rectangular grid, this  is an old Roman city arranged as a wheel with spokes. May that be a good omen. Wish me luck.

Stay tuned. Hopefully, your biking correspondent will figure out how to navigate the streets of Norwich well enough that you’ll hear from him again. The map may help—I hope so! Because no google on the fly—I can check my phone at my daughter’s house where there is WIFI, but otherwise the phone is merely a pocket watch and camera while I am in the UK.

Well, wish me luck. You’ll know if I achieve it, because I’m sure I’ll report on my English biking adventures.