big adventure

[idunnosomename]

dont pick up any perfume bottles!!!

[Pranet]

If it is big rocks you are after you could go to Avebury- it is free and sort of in the vicinity. I mean, it is a hell of a ride away but if you are riding from Bristol.... It also has Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow- a long barrow you can go into, a bit.

(Sorry, just seen Cuellar mentioned this on previous page).

[Neville Chamberlain]

...also, something tall and silent came and stood over me, I touched it (hairy) and it ran off into the woods...

Yeah, sorry about that! Did I scare you?!?

etc etc

[Ferris]

I spent a happy weekend hiking in Aviemore about 10 years ago. Give that a go.

They have a stone circle in a council estate. Won't see that anywhere else. Don't have to pay to go in either.

[Ray Travez]

I don't know Bristol at all, could you maybe start from somewhere else?

[Ian Drunken Smurf]

How about from Bristol on through to Taunton and the Quantocks or say along the coast to North Devon? Not sure if there are some killer hills though.

[kittens]

i an mainly interested in seeing very very old things and great views and ghosts. please try to incorporate these into your suggestions.

[idunnosomename]

why not go and visit your mum then lol

[kittens]

she is very haunting

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

I did once have an idea of cycling from my home to central london over the course of several days. I could have done a rural sightseeing fun thing like kittens but unfortunately there isn't anything cool to see in cambridgeshire or essex.

[Twed]

Alright calm down Twinsen

[idunnosomename]

I did once have an idea of cycling from my home to central london over the course of several days. I could have done a rural sightseeing fun thing like kittens but unfortunately there isn't anything cool to see in cambridgeshire or essex.

not true. also it could be like that monty python episode.

* im just your jack in the box *

[studpuppet]

Stonehenge is a soulless touris-trap monument to bleakness, too.

In its defence, this is on the visitor centre wall.

[Ferris]

Lots of good castles north of Bristol in the borders. Harlech and Skenfrith being the ones I remember. Hereford is quite nice as well, as long as you aren't planning to spend more than an afternoon there.

Edit: Skenfrith is a 4hr bike ride away. I don't think there are laws against free-camping in Wales (I believe they are England only?), and as a bonus you can have a look at where they filmed the trippy modern Doctor Who episode with Toby Jones in it. There's also a jam shop.

This is my final answer.

(Edit: you could also get Raglan Castle ticked off on the way - here it is being danced all over by Led Zeppelin in that ludicrous film they made)

[idunnosomename]

thats also not totally inaccurate regarding current scholarship on the most complete prehistoric architectural monument in perhaps, the world

well except that its a solar temple of course

[Dr Syntax Head]

Go west. Land's end is worth the effort and there's a great campsite at st ives

[ProvanFan]

Cycle to Halfords and check out the bikes