When long-standing Norwich Union Rugby Club stalwart Paul (PB) Barker decided to up sticks in Norfolk for a pile of assorted stones in the middle of a Scottish field that he would one day call home it was only ever going to be a matter of time before we could no longer resist the lure of a G&T with our old mate.
The only question was how to get up there.
Obviously no-one in their right mind would consider driving on one of PB’s big nights out so the big man came back to us with some suggestions:
"Hello Lads, in between building a staircase I've been checking out travel options to get to Aberdeen, a bit like pulling teeth on dialup!
Looks like cheap flights from Norwich have dried up, you can get a return flight from Luton for £87, or it's an 8.5 hour drive (last time I did it..)
There's always the push bike, I hear that's in favour at the moment.
We once got 4 up on gaz's bike before the back wheel collapsed, you could share the pedalling."
Looks like cheap flights from Norwich have dried up, you can get a return flight from Luton for £87, or it's an 8.5 hour drive (last time I did it..)
There's always the push bike, I hear that's in favour at the moment.
We once got 4 up on gaz's bike before the back wheel collapsed, you could share the pedalling."
That was back in June last year but the seeds had been sown. Slowly, very slowly a plan came together………
It's just 750 miles from Norwich to PBs and half of that is downhill – we were thinking we should be able to do that in a week if we have plenty of spare tubes and a big enough tub of chamois cream.............
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