With a week off work and no other plans, it seemed like a good idea to replicate Arlo's Hull-Wales journey but taking a more northerly route. Whilst the Transpennine Trail is kinda nice, it's not the most sensible route.

A couple of things came up during the week, so I ended up skipping the two central hilly days. But I rode one of them earlier in the month anyway, and the other earlier in the year.

It was quite eye-opening how badly maintained some of the canal towpaths are outside of Yorkshire, and I would definitely tweak routes to avoid canals where possible in the future. I did end up diverting away from some canal sections during the week, and I've updated the map accordingly.

This route follows basically two train routes (Hull-Leeds-Halifax and Leeds-Halifax-Chester) so it's really easy to travel between the "overnight" stops. But do look into split ticketing if you do this, especially on the longer train journeys

Here's some photos from along the way