Today's Route
Travelogue
Today, we set off on our first bikepacking trip of 2025. Our destination was the Knepp Estate in West Sussex, famous for its amazing rewilding project. It's only 32 miles / 52 km away from where we live so not too far away, either although the truth is, neither M1 nor M2 are exactly in peak physical condition at present so it felt further!
We're camping for one night but the highlight is that we're booked to do one of their "safaris" which is basically a guided tour on foot of the wild environment and its inhabitants. We're already surrounded by bird song coming from the trees around the camping area. Magical.
The tour itself was excellent. We spent two and a half hours walking through the rewilded landscape. We heard constant bird song and were able to identify some interesting species like the quite uncommon Common Nightingale and the Turtledove.
The star attraction though were the many White Storks nesting in the trees.
We were back at the tent by 10 pm and went straight to bed. Falling asleep was easy. M1 found staying asleep much harder though! After a lovely day with the temperature in the high twenties, it was a shock when the temperature plunged to two degrees Celsius (M1 has a Thermodrop that provides max and min temperatures). M1's summer sleeping bag is in no way suitable for such low temperatures and M1 ended up in sleeping bag, added silk liner and every item of available clothing and was still @#@! freezing! It was not a good night but fortunately the day preceding it was pretty great :-)
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