I *believe* the "stay at home" rules end on 29th March and it replaced the "stay local" message which then ends on 12th April. Although when reading the official rules on the government website its actually quite tricky to work this out.
Thanks for clarifying what's going on there, and yes I agree the guidelines when I did read them in January were both confusing and contradictory at the same time.
By my understanding then, the idea is to stay home as much as possible until 29th March, then stay local until 12th April, and I think in May it changes again?
I interact with less people, believe it or not, on my cycling training sessions outside than I do indoors. I live with 4 other men in a shared house, and the less said about cleaning standards etc the better...Which does remind me that I have some overdue spring cleaning to crack on with this week, but with the strong gusting wind due back on Thursday it can wait until then!
Assuming I do go out on a local train journey on Monday, and that is a big if right now based on the Met Office app, Malvern is still very much local to me. Quite, Colwall and Ledbury are closer and a train trip to Ledbury, for a cycle ride home, would mean I'd get to fill in some very frustrating gaps on the map
Similar for Leominster.
Back to the topic of trip planning, and I have vague plans for the summer which, like many of my plans these days, involve a combination of cycling and trains. I'm hoping at some point to do some trains and cycling in Lincolnshire this summer, which would hopefully lead me to finally getting my last 170 in the book. I also have vague plans to travel to Cheshire to do some exploring up that way, and a combination of train to Southport and cycle back to Liverpool (or vice versa) is also on the cards.
Plenty of other ideas come to mind, but nothing set in stone. My approximate mission for 2021 is to do as much of the UK as possible before the world reopens, at which point I intend to get back to exploring the best of the world!
