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Ready to leave my flat again. Look, I've still got the same bike that I had last year. That's quite ... The Malverns are back there somewhere. I'm afraid we can't see them though. This cycle path has become a bit overgrown since I last used it. Some of the plants were rather spik... There's Gloucester, seen from the recently completed western by-pass, complete with cycle path. I li... This bit's not ideal at the moment though. I circumvented this flood on the grass to the left. Later... Pessimists! Although the sky was still decidedly overcast, the rain had long since finished by this ... Checking my map in the Pucklechurch area. I haven't brought a paper map of today's route and I'm int... I wasn't expecting this area to be quite this hilly, having taken a bit of a detour to the west to a... The same hill. I found the 140 metre hill between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon, about an hour after thi... Edington, with the edge of Salisbury Plain behind it. The good thing about having all those unexpect... I've made it up onto Salisbury Plain. That's good. It's actually rather warm and sunny where I am, despite the appearance of the sky ahead. The tailwin... Stonehenge! I spent quite a while choosing a good spot from which to take a photograph, thereby ensu... I think I know where I'm going for dinner. It was absolutely rammed in there, and considerably under... One of the items which the Little Chef still had in stock was some kind of west Wiltshire free-ads p... But I haven't got a car! Some dappled shade on the southern part of Salisbury Plain. I think that might be my ship up ahead there. It's... quite big isn't it? by the way, the yellow pla... Southampton docks. Here's the ship then. Inside that shed is a large area for unloading luggage from cars and coaches. ... Wow! What a room. There's free champagne there look! I wasn't expecting somebody to come in and tidy... Whoever heard of having a private balcony on a boat? I'm afraid the view from mine isn't one of the ... What do you think? This is what was in the yellow bag. I'm not sure if it will be smart enough for t... Whose is that ridiculous clingfilmed package then? Looking down Southampton Water towards The Solent. This is quite a busy piece of water. Some workmen touching up the ship from a giant crane standing on the dock. This is ship's eleventh d... My room is back there somewhere. Another view of the ship. Probably not the last. One of the Isle of Wight ferries. They're cool boats these; they don't have a particular front or ba... Part of the bridge. 'Caution wet varnish'. It looks like the ship gets a bit of a once-over every time it comes home. Ju... This is how lugage gets onto the boat. My bike must have come across in one of these cages. Boat. A car transporter ship. It looks like a lot of cars get imported and exported here. The 'Todd English' restaurant. This food in here is meant to be very good and it's the only food whi... These corridors are amazing. This one leads to the library, not that you can see it from here. That's tidy, isn't it? You would hardly know there was a bike in here. Another car transporter has turned up now. Yes, yes. Boat! I'm not sure who all those people are. Friends of people on the boat, I suppose. The size of this boat is amazing. The upper observation deck, six floors above me, is easily higher ... These boats look like they've come to see us off. More little boats. We're being followed! Boat. Portsmouth is up ahead on the left. On the right is the Isle of Wight. This boat tracked us for quite a while. The Isle of Wight again. A tennis court. Who would have thought it? This part of the boat was probably designed with better weather in mind. The deck here is marked out for some kind of game called shufflleboard. Quite windy. That's where we are. I wonder what that does. This is part of the spa. I don't think I'll go in there. Apparently, this ship was deliberately designed as a bit of a maze so that you keep finding interest... Somewhere back there, Britain has just acquired a new Prime Minister. I wonder what he will have don... Waiting for my clothes to dry. I borrowed this book about Chaucer by Terry Jones from the ship's lib... The Grand Lobby. It's amazing how many of the passengers are going to be returning on this ship next... I haven't seen this room before! I haven't been here before either. Apparently people who bring all their belongings to this room and... This picture of the main dining room doesn't really do it justice but it would seem a but rude to wa... Apparently, there's a storm up ahead. We're deviating a bit to the North to avoid the worst of it bu... The needlecrafts group is smaller than I had expected. There are a few shops around the main lobby but they don't look like they sell the kind of thing any... Here's one of the theatres, where Giancarlo Impiglia is about to give a talk about the invention of ... The champagne wasn't taken away, look; it went in here! It's smaller than I remember it, and not rea... I've brought a piece of ethernet cable with me but not a dial-up modem cable because I didn't think ... The ship handled that storm very well. The winds were force 8 to 9 and there was more movement at th... More people enjoying the sunshine. I found a machine earlier which changed my last remaining money i... We must be approaching land now because the television is coming back. We had Sky with Irish adverts... Afternoon tea in the Queen's room. Apparently people were dancing in here yesterday but they don't s... Smart public toilets. This was an attempt at an arty shot of the sunset reflecting off that blade. I'm not sure why they h... Another view of the sunset, this time seen from the top deck. It was unusually peaceful up here. The... This is a rather poor view of the ship's other theatre. The Golden Lion, which is billed as an English pub. It's not totally authentic though; two of these ... They do have Karaoke though. Unsurprisingly I suppose, the tune being rather over-egged by that woma... Casino. Even now, I'm still discovering new parts of the ship. Somebody reckoned that a real Picasso was sol... There's some pretty dense fog on the sea at the moment. From the middle of the lower observation dec... I'm surprised this part of the ship doesn't get used more. It probably does in sunnier parts of the ... I like these paintings of fruit. They're painted directly onto aluminium. There's one of cherries so... I spent a while lying in the sun here listening to the music being piped around the pool area. It wa... We're leaving a trail in the sea and a trail in the air here. I'm not sure why the trail of smoke is... This is blue sea, isn't it? There are bits of plant-like material floating on it. I wonder if that's... Professor Derek Fraser discusses politics following the last of his lectures on the welfare state. Re-assembling my bike. I hope nobody objects to me wheeling something this size off the ship, and th... I don't know what this is but we overtook it. Incidentally, two of the deck crew, who drive the ship... Here is one of the first class dining rooms set out for breakfast. Incidentally, on the way to the m... We're on the final approach to New York now. The Verazano Narrows Bridge can be seen as a string of ... The approaching New York skyline. The red dot on the left which is higher than any of the others is ... The red ensign has just been lifted. It will soon be joined by a few other flags that make quite a r... The bridge again. It's strange how rooms never seem to get locked on this ship. This is the library, which is closed a... Here comes the sunrise. Pretty. Hello, boats. You can see the ESB clearly now. The bright pointy thing a few buildings to its right is its friend. There are more pictures than I've really got captions for here. You can choose which ones you like t... I hope it's going to fit! Sorry. I really wanted to get a picture of this and it came out blurry. This is the funnel going und... Everybody seems to be up here watching, many of them in dressing gowns. There was a cheer when the s... This will be New York then. The same really, Just talk amongst yourselves for a while; I'm taking pictures. More of the same. Now we get our first view of the Statue of Liberty. Can you spot it? It's near the left and very sma... A view of the New Jersey shoreline, featuring the Statue, of course. And now here it is with a bit of the boat. Blah, blah, blah. Sunrise! I like the way it reflects off those buildings along what I think might be called the East ... Apparently there's another sun coming up in the west. Maybe it's a reflection. New York harbour at sunrise. Here are those huddled masses you ordered. Manhattan again, with one of the Staten Island ferries glinting in the sun. Self-portrait. Staten Island, with two of the ferries. I suppose it would be silly to point out that we are now 'st... Is that a gun? Looks like it's going to be a nice day. The forecast is for sun, 26 degree temperatures and very lit... I want to ride it! The bike seemed to raise a few eyebrows, and comments from some of the crew such as 'well, that's on...