Here Charlie takes off to North Wales for four days to make the most of his limited finances, taking with him a fairly new companion who has done very little cycling called Ben.  Given Charlie’s descriptive writing, it is really easy to read it as though oneself were making this journey, and to revel in the changing views and see closer to hand the mountains which Ben had never seen before in his life. And let’s have some reality here, they start out from Bolton at 5am ‘to get the best out of the day’ and arrive at their B & B at 10pm.  How many of us touring cyclists have had days like that ?