After an initial short ride outside Center Parcs Woburn Forest, during our Easter 2026 trip, I was keen to explore a bit further. With a trip planned to Bletchley Park, it seemed like a great opportunity for a ride.
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While riding over Hulme’s Horseshoe Bridge on a warm Saturday evening in June 2026, I was surprised to see a completely empty Mancunian Way.
That’s unusual, what’s happened? Stopping to do some research, I soon found out it had just closed for the weekend for its annual maintenance inspection.
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While at Center Parcs Woburn Forest in Easter 2026, I was keen to get off-site and explore the local area on bike. Prior to going, I spent some time looking for information about routes nearby and came across the Cranfield Cycling blog, which became a useful guide.
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After previously enjoying ours stays at Center Parcs at Sherwood Forest in 2024 and Elveden Forest in 2025, we decided to try out Center Parcs in Woburn Forest for a short break during the 2026 Easter holidays.
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After seeing about the Redways some time ago, I’ve often thought about how I could engineer a trip to Milton Keynes to check them out. Arranging a short break to Center Parcs Woburn Forest for Easter 2026 gave me the perfect opportunity to do this!
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With some time to spare on our journey back from the Netherlands, we decided to take a detour through Zeeland. This south eastern area in the Netherlands is famous for its islands and peninsulas. These features gives the province its name, Zeeland meaning Sealand.
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For the final full day of our Duinrell trip of 2025, we headed back to Leiden again. This would be the third time during our stay. We always enjoy visiting the city as well as the ride there, so any excuse to go back.
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Having been to Den Haag the previous day, we decided to return to the city on the subsequent day. Though with a plan to visit Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the city’s museum of modern art.
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As the closest big city, Den Haag is a regular visit when we’re staying at Duinrell. Being just 13 km away on bike, it’s a fairly manageable ride, with multiple routes to choose from. With us staying at Duinrell for two weeks, we’d end up going there a couple of times on this trip.
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I had some spare time and the was sun shining. So I decided to head out on a ride to Scheveningen, the seaside town in Den Haag, southwest of Duinrell. This is somewhere we’ve been a few times in the past, but not actually that many. Last time was during our 2024 trip, as part of a ride to Den Haag and Madurodam.
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