Sunday 20th June 2021

It rained most of the night on the North York Moors but it started to brighten up in the morning and later it became a nice sunny day. After leaving our overnight stop we did a supermarket shop in Middlesbrough before stopping for the day at the Derwent Reservoir in the North Pennines just on the Durham - Northumberland border. We got the bikes out but as they hadn't been used for about 18 months we had to pump all the tyres up with our electric pump. 

We took a ride along the top of the reservoir dam.

The reservoir is frequented by numerous birds including these geese.

This is the view of the reservoir dam from our parking place.

Here's a view across the reservoir from the same location.

It costs £10 to stay here for up to 24 hours. A good initiative by the water company. The gates are closed at 20.00 so we've got the place to ourselves overnight.

Today we travelled 74 miles (119 kilometres) We are at: N54.85459 W1.96527

Derwent Reservoir      (No street view available)