Brompton wild camp - cosy, dark night, and *baking scones* on my Trangia (it worked!)
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- I did this Brompton bikepacking wild camp adventure in late November, when the sunset was at 4pm, and it was cold. Not an obvious time to go on a cycle tour perhaps, but I wanted to see late autumn, when the last leaves are on the trees and the landscape is almost bare. My Dad and little brother were meeting for a pub lunch on the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border, so I thought I'd join in, and cycle to the pub, camping wild on the way. I planned an easygoing two-day route through Staffordshire and Derbyshire. I love these kind of adventures actually, doing a journey that I want to do anyway, but going slowly, by bike, with my tent.
The November night was going to be dark and long, but I had a couple of new ideas to make it extra warm and cosy. Hope you enjoy the film!
A bit of background: Unfortunately my breast cancer came back earlier this year. On my previous bikepacking adventure, just after I finished chemo, I was quite weak and pretty much ground to a halt in the Derbyshire hills, as you might have seen. Since then, I've been doing more exercise to build myself up a bit - nothing fancy, just doing what the NHS recommend for adults each week, which is 150 mins moderate activity (eg walking, cycling) or 75 mins vigorous activity (eg running), and I am adding in (very) short sessions of circuit training, ie very vigorous. I am so grateful I can do all these things again. All pretty small scale and low key - sometimes seems kind of pathetically small! But it all adds up. When I started running, I could only run half a mile, but I have built it up slowly, and I can do two and a half miles now. And when I started circuit training - burpees and sit ups and whatnot, just at home - I could only do 3 minutes (nothing!!!! omg so hard) but over the weeks I have built it up to 8 minutes now. I'm not aiming to do marathons or race again or anything like that. I just want to be able to get out there confidently with my bike and tent - which itself feels like a brilliant tonic. Meanwhile the hospital have started me on hormone therapy and a treatment via vein to strengthen my bones. These are nothing like as nasty as chemo but have side effects too garhh. But exercise helps - as the hospital said it would - and I am doing OK on these so far. Good!
Thank you so much for all the good wishes! Let's all keep going! Happy New Year!
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Thank you so much for sharing this part of your trip. You continue to be an inspiration to me, and perhaps other women who travel alone by bicycle. Can’t wait for your next adventure,
Hi Malaika Sharp! Great that you enjoy seeing the world by bicycle too! Let's keep going! Happy New Year!
Baking scones while wild camping!!! That’s got to be a first. As ever, Susanna, there’s this gentle determination in all you do. I hope you’re well and 2023 sees you (and us) benefiting from your truly magical videos.
Inspirational as ever. My wife had a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis just over three years ago. Her Brompton has given way to an eBike. Your videos are literally an inspiration to her to keep on pedalling. Long may it continue for both of you.
Hi Gareth! So sorry to hear about your wife's diagnosis. Bravo to her for getting out on the bike still. Sounds great. That's inspiring me - it goes both ways! Thank you for writing! Wishing you both - and all of us - miles and miles of lovely roads! xx
Just wonderful, Susanna continues to prove that the simplest things in life are best,contentment,please keep the videos coming throughout 2023 .
I can’t tell you enough how much I enjoy your videos. The simplicity of your travels and the enjoyment that they provide is palpable. You have encouraged me to go on many a bike packing trip this year. I enjoy your camping segments as much as the biking . The meals you cook motivate me to be more creative in my own camping experience- but I must admit I’ve got a long way to go to match you! As always thanks for sharing.
A beautiful wild camp in the English countryside and a hot fresh scone. What a day! You’re such an inspiration.
It is good to hear that you are on a good way fighting against cancer, wish you all the best. Very nice video
I’ve never seen anyone so excited about making scones 😂😂 As usual, loved the adventure 😊😊
Thanks again Susanna .God Bless you . Great idea with scones .You were lucky with the weather ,it looked like there had been plenty of rain just before you got there to pitch your tent .❤
I always love your positivity! Please keep doing your adventures and share with us!
Hi Adrian! thanks for writing! more films coming soon!
That was a fantastic adventure Susanna and welldone for getting out in the cold weather. I never thought to use my Trangia as an oven but seeing how successful yours wwork I'll have to give it a try:)
Happy New Year
Sandy
Hi Sandy! Thank you for the lovely message! Congrats on becoming a Grandpa by the way! About the scones, I got the idea from a swedish outdoor cook book that my husband (who is swedish) gave me. People on here have kindly suggetsed other things eg welsh cakes and damper bread that can be baked on a Trangia (I didn't know what damper bread was so I looked it up and it looks lovely, Australia soda bread), so I am tempted to try baking some other things too now, it was brilliant on that cold day having hot fresh bread outdoors (well sort of bread). Anyway, thank you for watching and Happy New Year to you too!!
Hi there! Have been waiting for your upload 😃And here we are, knowing that you are done with your chemo ❤❤😊💪💪💪💪💪 and I’m just SO glad. As usual, thanks for being us with you along your the lovely ride ;)
Hay Susanna really enjoying your films thank you so much for sharing. I have a Brompton myself and am hoping to do a packing trip later this year. Was very inspired by your trip across Ireland.
Thanks for the great video. You are in my prayers.
It is making my day, watching, listening, imagining, even planning!? Thank you so much for not only being who you are but for sharing... these adventures, ways of living, the beautiful countryside, smiles, spirit and strength in the best of ways. An amazing and happy new year to you and all...
Thanks Robert! Oh ho that planning sounds good...! Wishing you a brilliant year in 2023!
Hello Susanna,
Well, I have now caught up on your most Brompton adventures... My friend lives in STONE in Staffordshire and is married to one of the Swinnerton girls... I was there a few weeks ago, some lovely countryside around where they live. Keep up all the good work you are doing on your recovery and I look forward to watching some more Brompton adventure with you.
Take care.
Paul,,
Your such an inspiration. Wishing you and your family a happy new year. 👍
Your little films are so uplifting and enjoyable Susanna, thank you so much for continuing to share them with us. The scones scene - genius! Bless you.
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Happy New Year Susanna. I enjoy watching your adventures and look forward to sharing your 2023 adventures 😀
Thank you, Susanna. I thoroughly enjoy all of your adventures. 🙂👍🚴♀️
Always look forward to your adventures, hope things are going well in your treatment, take care
What a beautiful and inspiring video!
Its wonderful that you're feeling stronger and healthier, and were physically up for this adventure, your exercise regime is working!
Your wonderful videography captured the natural beauty and peacefulness of where you travelled, and once again you found an idyllic camping spot.
Your scones looked delicious and I don't doubt that all of your viewers wished they could have joined you in sampling one, hot, with melting butter!
Your videos remind us that there's unequalled peace and natural beauty to be enjoyed if we just take the time to make it happen!
Thank you for taking the time to record, edit and share, its hugely appreciated.
Happy New Year Susanna! Every time I watch one of your films, I think to myself that I need to do proper cooking like you do when I'm camping. After this one, I've decided that I'm signing up for the Susanna Thornton Correspondence Course on Camping Cookery. The cheque's in the post. 😜
Brilliant, you are the trangia queen. Thankyou for a great video.
You are so inspiring to me! Both in terms of surviving your cancer, and your trangia cooking and baking!
Thankyou Susanna that was great 👌 wishing you all the very best for 2023 😊
Susanna, I love your attitude and your bike and camping adventures. Keep well! 🤗
thanks for writing and for watching Claudia!
Hot scones (Mmmmmmm my favorite pastry) and hot coffee, in front of a beautiful landscape, after filling your lungs with fresh air, I call it... Happiness! And you seem to me, dear Susanna, really good and fit. This bodes well for this new year that I wish you the happiest. By the way, you use the same lantern as me; It also illuminates and reduces the moisture of the tent. Thank you for the trip. 🤗
Hi Rogberube! aw you put it so nicely... Yes! Happiness! Ahh! Oh that is great that you find that the little UCO lantern also helps with condensation. I read about that aspect of it, good to know that you find it works. So cute aren't they haha. I love mine. I was also glad about the warmth from it, I mean one candle is not much, but I felt that it did make a difference. Actually I have since bought the little reflector brim thing, that you can clip onto the lantern, cos I found it hard to read by the light of the lantern as it is. It seems the brim might mean I can sit and read which would be just so cosy and lovely wouldn't it ahhh! Looking forward to getting out again! Thank you for writing! Happy New Year!
Blithe Spirit indeed! So pleased to see and hear you’re on the mend ❤. You seem to have a knack in finding great little camping spots tucked into the edges of fields.
Haha thanks platypushatstand! yeh I thought it was the wrong way round, for the sun etc, but it was a great cosy spot, actually sunrise was cloudy so not very exciting, and I got that nice sunset straight from the tent door
Hey Susanna, you are wonderful, so courageous and generous. Thanks
Another fantastic adventure. Thanks for introducing me to another relatively unknown part of our lovely country. And I’m definitely pinching that Trangia oven idea! Genius! Perfect happiness,sitting in the corner of a field eating scones and drinking coffee. Can’t think of anything better!
Hi Lynne! yeh those scones were soooo nice. Hot! just brilliant. Smelled so good too! Actually nice people have written comments with loads of other ideas for other things you can bake on a trangia, Australian damper bread, welsh scones, cheese scones etc, so I am going to try some other things I think... exciting! haha. Happy New Year!!
@@susannathornton Happy New Year to you too, and 🤞you keep in good health now the chemo is done. I think I’m going to try sourdough bread rolls. I often take a frozen lump of my dough away with me, but so far it’s always been flat breads in the ridge monkey!
Another fabulous video! Those scones were a work of genius, too. Best wishes for your treatment and Happy New Year to you x
That was very nice Susanna. You are an inspiration in many ways. I always enjoy your comments when you are looking for a place to pitch your tent. Love the scones and your little lamp. I hope you can make more videos soon .... ( no pressure... haha) Thank you very very much .
Lovely journey, thank you for sharing it with us. All the best with your continued treatment.
Thank you for yet another truly inspirational film. You make everything look so easy, yet achievable.
I must dig out my Trangia and practice some recipes. Those scones look amazing.
I just wish I could spend an afternoon cycling with you as you look for a good wild camp location, I would love to know what you are looking for and how you know when you have found it. I find it hard enough picking where to pitch on a camp site.
I so look forward to your videos, that I check back every couple of days, just in case you have sneaked another one on.
I am now eagerly awaiting the next one.
Another wonderful inspiring video from a mighty warrior. I wish you all the best for 2023 and a strong and steady recovery. Best wishes from Portugal!🇵🇹💪🚴♂️✌
Lovely trip, lovely video - and I shared your delight in the Trangia baked scones 😊. What a treat!
Susanna,
I see The Great British Baking Show in your future!
Another lovely winters trip; as a Florida boy I have to bundle up like you when the temperature here drops below 50F.
Glad to see that your strength is returning, it is important to keep our minds as well as our bodies in top shape.
Happy New Year.
Peter Forde
Such an inspirational person. Keeping everything simple, and achieving your goals. Thanks for your amazing videos.
As always Susanna - you made me feel like I was experiencing this beautiful scenery in person..., Admirably well done. 😎
Thanks Swissthun! glad you enjoyed it!
Hope you are feeling even better now Susanna! Can't wait for your next Brompton ride :)
Great Autum adventure. ♡ Thanks for taking us along.
Another great adventure ❤ thank you for taking us with you.
Hi Susanna, thanks for another chilled out vlog. Happy new year to you and i look forward to following your adventures in 2023. Stay safe, Jack
What a lovely new years present for me, seeing you out and about once more and making a new video. Thank you.
Best wishes to you for 2023, and I hope you are able to enjoy lots more lovely adventures.
I wish you a very Happy New Year Susanna, and many, many others cycling your Brompton and telling us about your trips.👍👍👍
How anyone can make a scone look so tasty... made my mouth water 😁 Great trip. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year👍
Hello Susanna, Dear Trangia Companion.
I enjoyed this video so much. On my next ride I’ll try the scone-trick!
Warm greetings,
Luk from Belgium
Bike,bus,train ride- priceless.
Wild camp,fresh baked scones,lunch at the Pub- priceless.
A lovely trip indeed.
Great to see you out and about again looking well, have to say seeing your bike and panniers on the bus cracked me up😅
I haven't watched your video yet Susanna, but I know I'll enjoy it. Just wanted to be first (or one of the first) to wish you good health and much happiness for the New Year 😊
Thanks Clive! All the best to you too!
How inspirational! Thank you.
Oh thanks Kerry! glad you enjoyed the film!
So nice to see you again, lifts the spirits to go on another adventure with you….PaD new forest. 😀x
Thanks PaD! glad you liked it!
Love this one...... 😀 ❤️
Great to watch your trip as I'm a true stoke -on-Trent lad myself. happy cycling
Amazing off-road Brompton skills! Love it, thanks so much for posting
Another lovely video thanks for sharing
Happy New Year Susanna!!
It's good to know that you finished the chemo. This year will be a blessing for you and your whole family, you'll see. I loved the music, the sunsets, the sounds of the birds and the sound of the horse's footsteps and those breads looked delicious!
Good that you are well and when you wake up remember that there will be no more chemo, now to continue enjoying the routes and if you dare, we are waiting for you here with great enthusiasm! Carmen desde PR😉😂😂🎉
Hi Carmen! Thanks for the super comment! Glad you liked the film. Happy New Year to you and all your cycling friends there too! 😁
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So glad this popped up in my suggestions. I could totally relate to your sense of excitement as you prepared to leave. Amazed by the amount of gear you packed on your Brompton. We'll worth the bulk of the Trangia for those scones. Made me want to pack the bike and get outside. Will certainly be checking out your other adventures. 😁
Thanks for the message Dougy! glad you liked the film!
Susanna thank you for sharing
Very minimal set up and you are baking scones in a field! and they looked good! Nice video.
Haha thanks Alan 😁
Lovely video, I really enjoyed that 👍
Wonderful video as always - thank you!
Hi Dave! Thank you for watching! I was curious and googled you and so now have just been reading your book A to B and omg I love it! And your series for the Guardian, omg brilliant. How come I have not seen your work till today?? Anyway, so glad I know about you now!
@@susannathornton Hi Susanna - oh, thank you, that's lovely to hear and very kind of you. Great to hear that you've enjoyed the book. I only discovered your videos a month or two back, and have found them most inspiring, for many reasons. Not least the idea of achievable folding-bike mini adventures, and that you also take time to chat to people along the way. Anyway, great to make contact.
Wishing you a happy New Year Susanna and may 2023 be good to you. Thank you for continuing to upload videos they are great.
Hello Susana,
enjoyed your tour again. Above all, I can understand your text under the video very well. I have stage 3 kidney failure myself. This means I can still move around without dialysis. I do have rheumatic complaints, but I want to move and it's good for me and helps me to assert myself in everyday life.
So I wish you that your recovery will continue to improve.
Happy New Year to you and many greetings, Kurt
Hi Kurt! Thanks for writing! Good that exercise is good for your condition, and that it helps you feel good as well. Same for me! I appreciate it so much actually, that the people treating me encourage me to be active, and talk about exercise not just about pills and chemicals etc. They even put me in contact with another patient, who was running and cycling through her treatment. That was brilliant of them, really grateful. Hope you are getting great support too, and hope you can move around and enjoy it, and protect your kidney health, and feel your best! Best wishes for 2023!
Thanks for the video 🙏 cheers
All the very best for 2023 🙏 it’s always a highlight for me when I see another of your videos pop up to sit back and enjoy
Susanna , Happy New Year, may it be filled with many more adventures.
Thanks again for sharing your journey, both health and travel, as always enjoyed watching.
Keep up the great work. Cheers Johno.
Hi Johno! Happy New Year to you too! thanks for watching, and thank you for your good wishes 😎
Awesome.
Another great wee adventure. So relaxing to watch! I'm glad that you haven't been tempted to electric assistance yet. I like the scone cooking idea. Perhaps a wee bit of wire mesh to keep the scones off the pan would stop them burning. They looked really tasty though!
Hi Stuart! Ah yeh, a lot of people have mentioned ebikes... The thing is I know ebikes have brought some people who'd stopped cycling back into it, and that is great, and have brought altogether new people into cycling and that is great too, and ebikes are helping people keep on cycling when they cant manage otherwise, and that is fantastic too. And I've messed around on friends' ebikes for fun, and had fun, but I'm just not interested in using one for what I do. Dunno, but for me, I just want things simple, and even if it is harder there is kind of a simple pleasure in getting around by my own basic pedal power. Right now after all this chemo and whatnot, I'm building my strength back up through cycling and other stuff, and that's a huge pleasure in itself. And I want to keep on being able to ride a basic pushbike as long as possible... Plus of course when I am camping there's nowhere to charge up a battery, and I have lots of longer tours in mind, when I can hardly keep my phone and camera juiced up never mind a bike battery. So yeh, I am an acoustic cyclist, or whatever the expression is. And hope I am lucky enough to keep going like that for ages. Anyway, yeh, there you are... Oh and that is a nice little idea about the mesh for the scones! Anyway, I have gone on a bit haha! thanks for writing! Happy New Year!
@@susannathornton Totally agree with you! I like the simplicity and freedom of a manually assisted bicycle. If the hills get too tiring I just get off and push.
Bangin' Susanna! Thanks and happy new year!
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A lovely surprise just now discovering a new adventure from you. Best wishes and a very happy new year.
I wasn’t expecting those scones to have worked! What a great idea, I think I might try it when I’m camping again. I’ve planned a few Brompton escapes from for this year, ranging from day trips to short cycle camps such as the Hadrian’s Wall route. Looking to begin in March with the first leg of the Pennine Cycle way Derby to Buxton, assuming that the trains aren’t cancelled.
Yeh I was also really surprised those scones worked..! They did look really sort of grey and greasy and kind of hopeless when I put them in the pan... Oh that's great that you've got a calendar of cycle camps planned, they sound fab.
Loved this adventure. I will be trying scones on my trangia now. Hope your new year is packed with adventures xx
As always the purest of treats.
Thanks so much for this late season tonic tour, it really was a wonderful gift. The days are getting longer now!
ATB in 2023. Brad
Great Video Susan, So relaxing thanks
Excellent start to the New Year - watch another great adventure from you! All the best for 2023.
Thanks very much for another great video of a lovely trip 👍
The best wishes for 2023 Susanna. Looking forward to your next adventure!👍👌
Happy new year. May the new year be kind to you. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
I really look forward to your videos. Thanks.
Probably the best scones you've ever had! Thanks for the adventure
Nice! Happy New Year, Susanna 😀
Always look forward to your videos. This one is super too. Best Wishes for 2023.
Hey Susanna. Nice one. Looked pretty wet in places. Interesting landscape. I’ve driven through that area many times but never seen those backwaters. Loved the scone scene. X
Hi Vin! thanks for watching! yeh wet! the road was completely flooded in places - which would have been nice to get into the film but unfortunately I just got lovely sound of the bike forging through water but no images as camera was facing the wrong way! Oh dear. Hey ho. Thanks for writing! Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a brilliant year in 2023!
@@susannathornton Thanks, Susanna. Yes, all good here and working up to all kinds of projects for this year. Looking forward to more of your vids as well so good luck with them and everything else. Take care. X
Lovely to see you chuffed and happy with the countryside, your camping pitch and your scones, great adventure.
Happy New Year Susanna, wonderful to see a new video of yours pop up. Keep goin lass 😘
Thanks for the beautiful video! Thanks for taking us along on your journeys. I find them so beautiful and inspiring. I have been thinking about you and your treatment every time that I ride my Brompton. Take care! Your fully and speedy recovery is in my prayers. I am looking forward to the next video!
Lovely peaceful sanctuary your content is . ( Yoda voice )
Haha I like the yoda voice! Thanks for watching Paul!
Great video Susanna happy New Year
What a lovely trip, thanks as always for sharing. I'm so glad the chemo is ended and I hope for your future health. Happy New Year Susanna ATB Big Dave Scotland.
Hi Big Dave! Thanks for watching! yeh so glad the chemo is over hurrah. Happy New Year to you and yours!!
Your videos are amazing, Susanna. I love watching them and I think you’re so inspiring. Keep making them; I will keep watching. Much love.
Another wonderful video - so enjoyable to watch. I am in total admiration for you wild camping at this time of year! I am such a softy! Roll on springtime 🙂
Wishing you a much better year in 2023 - full health, love and happiness.
Looking forward to lots more of your Brompton adventures.
Am always excited when I see you have made another interesting video. You are a truly inspirational. Good Health for 2023 and always.
happy new year see you next time
Ive just found your channel and subscribed you're one great lady I'll keep watching youngen ok thank you will x
Hello Susanna, so good to see you on another trip in the beautiful countryside. I wish you all the Best for 2023, and look forward to you next video where ever that might take you. Regards. Andrew.
What a lovely video to watch at new year! It was great to see the smile on your face! I think 40 miles is quite a long way on a Brompton, especially when you have off road sections. The scones looked tasty, it looked cosy in your tent and lovely scenery. Very best wishes for 2023 from Jenn and Russ. PS We have Brompton’s and we always love to watch your videos. 😊