Dear Suzanna, thank you for sharing your latest cycling adventures with everyone. Despite all the personal challenges, you still manage to inspire us all with positivity, strength and love for the little things in life. That is truly admirable. I wish you a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing many more of your inspiring adventures in the future! ❤
Aw Jerry thank you for the lovely comment. I loved what you said, especially about the little things in life, so nice. Thanks for watching my channel! Best wishes!
I too am sending love, and best wishes, in the hope you beat this awful illness. My cancer was prostrate about four years ago, ok now but the side effects are not nice to be honest. ... I've just come back from Halfords with a smaller chain wheel on my Brompton Urban three speed, I took your kind advice. Hopefully now I'll get to ride it, as soon as the weather improves just a little. I'm still a bit unsure about the front "twitch" so dry roads are a must for me, for the time being. Love the video's kind wishes Susanna. Richard.
Hi Richard! Oh congrats, that's fantastic, about your Brompton. Great! Hope you love the bike. Sorry to hear that you're battling crappy side effects, and everything. Hope you can set all that to the side when you're tootling round on your nifty bike. Mine is definitely a forget-cancer zone. So many places to go and things to see and people to meet on the way. Happy cycling! Best wishes! from my husband too. We are both glad for you about the bike
Hee hee - that was wonderful Susanna!! You made me want to get the camera out again 🤗 Such a great trip and thanks for bringing us along! I seem to desire lots of trips with no camera to eventually find the desire to bring it along with me again - your video seemed to bubble that up to the surface again! Thanks for the reminder with the lyrics ‘we don’t need to work so hard, we don’t need to act so strong..’, even at that you’re a warrior woman!! A warrior that faces life’s obstacles (be they the inconvenience of cancer or a fence to climb over) with grace and the occasional smile! I’ve joined you and bought myself a Hilleberg Akto for its strength - so impressed with being in a strong tent with strong winds hardly ruffling it!! Even the view of a bus still looked like a piece of heaven!! 😂 Loved the church door and your Apple stealing prowess 🎉 Looking forward to more post week 1 treatment trips 🤞😉 Wishing you the best xx
Aw Miriam! so nice of you to write such a nice comment again, omg you were up sooo early!!! haha. I read your comment in bed this morning, so nice to hear from you. I loved your hee hee - cos yeh it was a really happy adventure. Your lovely laugh was a perfect reaction haha. Yeh I liked that song, seemed to fit. Oh that is fab that you got an Akto too. Actually I was out again, couple of weeks ago, and pitched on a cliff in a gale and the tent did do quite a bit of ruffling haha, so that in the middle of the night I even started to think I ought to have read more carefully those instructions you get from Hilleberg, about how to mend tent poles... but then I thought no prob, this little Akto will be just fine. And of course it was. And mine feels huge, esp when I have the inner door rolled up, sooo nice. Oh great you are gonna pick up your camera again! Looking forward to see what you film next!! So in awe of your gorgeous drone shots, omg you are just amazing. Best wishes! 🥰
@@susannathornton my choice of word with ‘ruffling’ definitely wasn’t accurate!! The inner certainly does ruffle about, but I’m impressed with the sturdy pole of the Akto 🤗 I had my own gale experience last night with the tent - holy god…not as forecasted and it caught me out! No lovely drone shots for the sunrise and sunset on this trip 😂 Just me holed up in the tent with a camera and some raging winds!! 🫣 I survived to hopefully tell the tale anyway! I reconciled myself to not learning about the spare pole - I should though and bring it with me too of course!! Glad you’re getting out and about Susanna and thanks for inspiring me to bring the camera with me yesterday - footage could be nonsense of course!! We’ll see 🤕
@@MiriamKennedy oh! we were actually looking at a weather map over the weekend, and thought goodness it was looking wild over there! good you were cosy in your lovely Akto! looking forward to the film! x
When I look at this journey, I notice your attitude to the obstacles encountered: resourcefulness, patience, perseverance. The quality of your videos makes me imagine that I am accompanying you, that I am standing next to you. Believe me, this is not a monologue but a beautiful sharing of your feelings and emotions. Dear Susanna, I am sending you beautiful positive thoughts in the hope that you will heal faster. 🤗
Aw thanks Rog. Glad you like the films! Such a nice comment you made. Actually I started making the films because I wanted to try and show why I enjoy this so much and cos quite a lot of youtube channels about cycling and camping etc seemed to be more about going fast and doing epic long hard rides in amazing places etc which is great of course, but I wanted to show it's nice also to tootle around a bit more slowly, and in sort of 'ordinary' places, wherever I am. So lovely to get feedback like yours. Thank you for watching and for writing!
It must be great to get back to some sense of doing what you normally are able to do. Thanks for taking us along and taking some much care in making the videos.
I always look forward to the bit of the video where your journey trasitions from the busy hustle bustle of London to the quieter outlaying area's, in this video it was Greenhithe. There are a lot of apples, nuts and fruits on the tree's this year, and more than usual thats because it's a "Mast year" which means every few years some species of shrub/ tree produce a bumper crop. I've been nogging a few apples too:) A lovely ride Susanna, it looks very pretty in Kent close to the sea. I've never been to that part of the UK before. Good luck with the chemo. I had neuro surgery in Oxford some years ago to remove a type of brain tumour called acoustic neuroma. When you go through a serious illness it makes you appreciate everything even more, even the simple things and that comes across well in your videos. Glad you enjoyed the fish n chips :) Sandy
Aw Sandy thank you so much for the lovely comment, and for writing about your own experiences like that. Sorry to hear that you had to have neuro surgery, sounds really frightening. Yeh, I agree, serious illness makes you appreciate everything so much more. I actually had a coffee today, haha wow so nice, everything about it the taste and the smell and it was exactly the right temperature, and it was a lovely cup to hold as well haha i enjoyed it so much. I saw you doing a film about hot tents crikey I hardly know what they are, I better watch it haha! Thanks so much for writing x
You have no idea how happy and grateful I was seeing a new video from you. I’ve been praying for you. 😍💪 Thank you for being strong and courageous. Enjoyed getting a good glimpse of your trip, it was surely not all smooth but heck, you did it ;). And who knows, with the time limitation of the train, you managed to get fish and chips! ❤😂
I watch a few channels to view the landscapes and Brompton adventures. But for some reason I never want your videos to end. They seem to take us away with you. thank you Susanna - appreciate your time given to us. 😊 Hope all is going well.
Aw thank you Barbara! Glad you liked it! Best wishes to you in Bavaria! I was a student for a while in Munich actually, about 100 years ago, thanks to Erasmus programme, really enjoyed my time there. Joined a cycling club there, lovely memories. Anyway, thanks for watching!
@@susannathornton Servus liebe Susanna, dann sind wir uns vor 100 Jahren bestimmt schon über den Weg gelaufen oder geradelt :-) Viele Grüße PS: Nichts zu danken, es macht wirklich großen Spaß, deine Filme anzuschauen!
Susanna, I watched many of your videos numerous times and just want to say - you have an ability of becoming one with your surroundings in a most natural way possible ... an ability most of us lost. Thank you so so much for grounding me in life xxx
Brilliant! Good to see that Brompton Therapy helps the cancer treatment. Solidarity to you and may you have the pleasure of many more Brompton adventures.
Hi Susanna, you are amazing getting out there whilst having treatment and thankyou for sharing with us, I know the extra effort involved in filming over just riding. Having grown up in Kent, you are now officially a Kentish scrumper, one apple won't matter, anyway you had earnt it. I sincerely hope all is going well with your treatment (as well as any cemo can). I so hope the gods are on your side. Keep Safe ATB Big Dave Scotland
Hello petshark! glad you enjoy the videos! thank you for the lovely comment! more coming soon, I am editing a film here right now, should go to bed haha but I am editing x
Oh, Susanna! I had no idea. I'm sending you lots of love and healing energy from Oregon💌 I think it's brilliant that your doctors have encouraged you to continue adventuring. Thank you for sharing with us. To health!!!
Aw thanks SW x yeh I agree it's brilliant that the team at the hospital encourage me like this. I was kind of hesitating so the specialist nurse who is looking after me linked me up with another of her patients who is a marathon runner, to help me. She is completely bonkers, the marathon runner, and super nice. She had just cycled 100 miles and is not even a cyclist so I thought blimey I am being a bit feeble and better get on with things. Wonderful NHS. I really really appreciate it. We are so fortunate to have this system here in the UK. Thank you for watching! And for the lovely comment! To health and happiness, all of us!
It's always nice to have inspiration. The marathon runner is definitely that. Your NHS is wonderful. Cancer, or any illness, can financially ruin us here in the States. Cancer especially, if treatments top what a person's insurance plan pays. I hope in my lifetime to see a national health care program like yours in place. It's infuriating that has not yet happened--too much money being made by big pharmaceuticals and medical corporations. It's predatory. Anyway, I digress. Just please know people around the world are thinking of you and wishing you great health and success!
Just love your videos. My God be with you. When I see your videos I think the Lord for keeping you safe, now I ask him to be with you, and be with you and keep you healthy to enjoy riding the way you do. My bike 🚲 came, so fun. love you. Keep being you.
Your a brave lady. An inspirational journey from start to finish. The two high lights for me were setting up camp and saying we’ve arrived and the fish and chips supper. Many thanks
Hi Ron! Thanks for the lovely comment! Oh it was lovely arriving at that camp and feeling kind of at home in the tent, home sweet home. Haha yes those fish and chips were brilliant. It was a pity that I didn't look around in Margate more really, but I concentrated on fish and chips haha. Next time I should look around. Thanks for watching!
Hi Robert! thanks haha that's nice, Brompton Bikeabout! As nice of you to thank me, but basically I just enjoy making the films, makes me really think about the places and where I was and what it was like, instead of just moving on and forgetting. And then I watch my own films and enjoy them myself haha! Glad you like them too. Thanks for watching!
Fascinating journey. Love the fact that you just set your destination and go and discover things on the way including busy roads and dead ends. Not many people do this anymore. Thank you for inspiring me to do my own Brompton adventure this summer.
Aw thanks for the lovely comment Algernon! Sounds great that you did a Brompton adventure too. Wonder where you went. Yeh about straight lines, dead ends and things, I like doing that - just looking around, see what is there...
Hello Susanna, just to tell you that you are admirable, you are motivating, my best wishes and thanks for these wonderful tours of these beautiful landscapes, greetings 🙏😊✨💫
You are inspiring! Love your determination and resilience despite your health. Beautiful country. I run into your video while researching into buying a Bromptom. Thank you for sharing your journey and wishing you a speedy recovery. Sending healing thoughts. Take care.
Thank you Susanna for another lovely video. I lived in Gravesend from a child through to age 55, and regularly visited the "prom" to watch the big ships pass. In those days, some still went to the London docks as well as to Tilbury. The river is much quieter these days. In recent years I have moved to Thanet, and walked the path from Minnis Bay to Reculver and back just last week. Sorry that we couldn't have organised some better weather for you, especially on day two..... You are a strong and a remarkable woman. I hope you can weather these latest health problems, and I look forward to seeing many more of your "mini adventure" videos very soon.
Fantastic Susanna....another amazing trip with a few glitches along the way but in true style you plod on and get to your destination, and to top the journey off with fish & chips is just heaven on earth 😃😋🙏 Your an inspiration Susanna and are in my prayers ❤️
I am new to your site and just picking around your videos. SO INSPIRED by your travels and your story. Wishing you well in all your adventures. Thank you for sharing with those of us plotting and planning our next adventures.
So happy to have another of your films to watch 😊. My mum had similar cycles of treatment and has been clear for the past 10 years. Blackheath / Greenwich is where i was “raised” until my first job took me Milton Keynes.
You are a true inspiration. There are times when I can't be bothered to get off my fat lazy arse to open the garage door and just get my bike out. And here's you still making these adventures for us to watch. Thank you X
What a lovely surprise. You are spoiling us....watch out we will get to expect it. The scenery was awesome for a person who has never been to UK. That door and the height of the fort. How did soldiers run up and down those stairs and have the energy to defend it. I’m tired at the thought. I love your courageous energy. I wish we could email YOU with some cheerful photos of our lives to help you know you are not alone on the Big C journey. Where I live in Australia the flannel flowers are a sea of white through the national park and the whales are migrating with their babies. Yes I live by the ocean. Summer is almost here. Love, love, love the video ...keep strong ..I know how it feels...and how good it is to come safely out the other side. You sure are an inspiration...sending love and a huge hug.
I missed you last video so wasn’t aware of your new health concerns you continue to amaze me, have to say seeing you in a cycling cape made me smile I haven’t worn one since around 1985, I remember flagging down a fellow cyclist wearing a cape when I was driving home from a music lesson and insisting he took mine. I’d been driving around with it in my car waiting for someone who might actually use it. Some years later I bumped into him in a village iron mongers shop where after retirement he had become part of the furniture so to speak. I revisited the shop after a few more years and found out he had apparently passed away The shop had bought a rather fine looking iron bench and placed it in a spot that might come in handy for tired cyclists compleat with a brass plaque in memory of. I digressed a fair bit there but figured you might enjoy a cycling tale I can still remember him stuffing the cape into his carradice saddle bag. Am looking forward to your next video whenever that is . 😊
Oh that's a nice story Dave. Really decent of you to give away your gear like that, and so nice that the shop did that bench too! nice place for a tired cyclist to sit and drink a nice hot coffee from their flask - well that's what they would be doing if it was me haha
Lol, after getting over the rails the trail got pretty wild. Another great film. Thanks for continuing to share and inspire. Looking forward to your next update.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! It's always lovely getting to the shore, any shore, where having escaped the crowded tall city, the sky opens up and it feels like you can see forever. I agree it's often all about the small corners of this world where we find treasures. Thanks, Susanna, for finding and sharing some.
Oh that says it really well Brad. I love what you wrote, about reaching a shore... and yes, small corners. Thanks for watching! And please keep writing your inspiring comments!
Loved traveling with you, and your “never let anything beat you” approach. I have not lived in England for the last 14 years, I enjoyed seeing the England I miss so much. You reminded me of my Brompton ride along the Avon canal and the Thames from Bradford on Avon to Reading. Stay well.
Hi Chris! Oh those sound great, the rides you did on the Avon canal and the Thames. I am thinking of exploring more of the upper Thames actually, so hopefully will be kind of following in your tracks soon! Thanks for writing! best wishes to you from back here in England - and hope you got some nice places to explore there where you are now too
Thanks for another great video Susana, so sorry to hear your not well but great to see you being so positive and using your bike to aid your recovery, sure it will help. Best wishes and I look forward to the next one 👍🚴
Hi Janie! Thanks for the lovely message! yeh those apples, so tempting 🙄😮🍎 there were loads of huge polytunnels full of strawberries round there too, which smelled amazing 🍓 but I managed to hold back from testing them 😁
Great to see you're still smiling, and I hope those first and second weeks of the cycle aren't too awful for you. I *really* enjoyed this film - I grew up in Chatham and Rochester and know some of these routes quite well. Particular favourite points for me were seeing the Trafalgar Tavern, where one of our friends had her wedding reception nearly 30 years ago, the industrial and marshland route past Crayford, ST Mary's Higham which is an absolute gem of a church, all the vernacular flint buildings, and the North Kent beaches, which were regular day trip destinations when I was young. Thanks again for sharing all this with us.
Hi Karl! Aw thanks for the lovely comment. Aha so this was all really familiar territory for you! Yeh I thought there were loads of lovely buildings, flint chapels and lovely old pubs and weatherboarded cottages and all sorts, so nice. Yeh I love that bit at Crayford marshes. I have cycled out quite a few times as far as those green bits from the centre of London, just day rides, and it is always nice. A huge mix as you say, metal scrap yards next to the yacht club and everything but I like it. I had never gone beyond there though so it was really exciting to head into Kent. Thanks for writing! Love your films too! I really like how you put the book in at the beginning and the end. Best wishes!
Hope the fish and chips were tasty. I like your nifty little chair. Enjoyed the video and look forward to the next one. I do like how you show these quirky historical places that we tend to overlook or take for granted. Also just to echo the other comments I am so impressed and inspired by your determination.
Lovely trip 🙂 I always find riding near water very calming and seem naturally drawn to it: lakes,canals, rivers all good but estuaries and the sea hands down favourites. Hope the weather is kind and allows you a few more trips before winter sets in. Take care.
Another fabulous video. Thank you. I am enjoying the colour coordination in this one - orange bike, jacket, flask 🙂 I also love your determination - nothing really stops you...... thorn bushes, dead ends, major roads etc. You always find a way through. Your Brompton really does so well on some of that terrain! It's so good that you feel free and can forget the cancer while you are out too. Wishing you all the best with your continued treatment. Sending much love and admiration for your adventuring spirit.
Thanks Penny! yeh not sure how the colour coordination happened really. I am not really known for fashion style haha. I just like those nice cheerful bright things. Thanks for the lovely comment!
Hi Susanna. Simply inspirational 🤘🚴♂️. Lovely little jaunt to the seaside to enjoy what you like doing best, despite the battle you are currently waging. Keep on fighting. ATVB from a very wet Malaysia and wishing you a speedy recovery
Hi Razif! Oh I hope there is not flooding or anything like that where you are. Thank you for the lovely comment! Glad you enjoy the films! ATVB back to you from here in England! 😎
You earned that fish and chips at the end! Fantastic ride and great video. Thank you! Wishing you well with your treatment...and many more cycling adventures.
Your adventures simply make me smile, especially your “off the cuff”, “winging it” attitude. You should rename these “My third week adventure series”. I think of you every time I hop on my Brompton.
That's a good idea the "week three" series haha! yeh having a very fixed timetable like this makes me just think, OK do it now! these two days! cos if not I have got to wait another 3 weeks... and that is a good little push
Happy video! Lovely to see you off on another adventure twixt the energy-sucking rounds of chemo. Loved the apple 😬, the pretty little church and the chish ‘n’ fips at the end, which I could smell! Remember all of us on here are wishing you the very best of health again soonest and have you in our thoughts as you navigate the treatments. So, until the next video … 👍🏻🙂
Aw thanks for the lovely message! yeh energy-sucking is a good way to describe it! hate it. But hey ho. I am really lucky that so far I feel good enough to get out and ride. Sooo lovely! I find the thought that I might be OK to do an adventure makes me work extra hard on boring physio and on getting immediately on top of eye infections and whatnot, in time to head off on my bike. If you know what I mean! Anyway thanks for writing again! Best wishes!
Excellent trip Susanna , it’s great to find somewhere quiet in a busy area and watch the world go by. Some horrible side effects for you to deal with ,just glad you can still get out and do these great road trips atb Dave ⛺️👍
Just like to say we'll done for been so positive. I suffer from M. E. (CRONIC FATIGUE) it's something I always try to be with my illness positive. Thanks for your video which encourages me to get out and keep trying. 🚴🚴🚴👍
Hi Eduardo! Thanks for the message! yes I am glad and lucky that I have been feeling good during these "third weeks" each round of chemo. Thanks for watching!
Congratulations Susanna a great video on a whole range of levels. But the way you are dealing with your personal circumstances is particularly inspirational. Thank you.
Susanna you define the best of what it means to live with kindness, humour, and courage. Thank you for another heart warming and truly inspiring video. I hope the treatment plan is a complete success.
Dear Susanna, you are in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video: I love how you always stop to connect with people! You are an example…courage, adventure, kindness.
Hi Colin! thanks for the lovely comment! yep keep on going! I've got maps spread over the floor here again right now, having coffee and doing some dreaming haha... so nice!
Love your stuff Susanna….thanks for producing your videos, it’s much appreciated. Your many fans wish you well and look forward to many more of your future adventures…ride safely and look after yourself. 👍😀
Hi Susanna, Lovely video , liked the views! Lots of sunshine in your video haha. Great as always! Please get better, you’re having lots of fun doing this, we have lot’s of fun watching! Thanks and be strong and get well👍🏻
As thanks Alex! Glad you enjoyed the film! I have lots of fun doing the rides, and making the films - and then also lots of fun hearing from everyone. Thanks for being there! Best wishes!
Aw thanks Adrian. Yeh, trying to give myself a gap when it is *me* in the foreground and I am doing the things I love, and all the cancer treatment stuff is pushed into the background for a while, or completely forgotten, yay! even better!
That was another superb video Susanna! That was quite a challenging tour with all those narrow bridges and gates! Hope these video's are helping you recover from the cancer treatment. Best wishes.
Wonderful film Susanna. Your more reflective sections were so “right” and in particular when you said “I need to slow down” especially after that horrendous section on the dual carriageway with huge trucks thundering past. Stay well.
You make every journey so serene and charming. Thank you for being brave and determined and for sharing such marvellous adventures with us. You're an inspiration, Susanna. Wishing you the best of health and happiness.
Susanna!!! I hope you've been well since this video ❤ Thank you forever and always for your videos, I'm so excited to pick up my bike this weekend and go for rides again. The LA River isn't known for beauty, but it's....social 😂🥰😉
Thanks for for another great video. Me and my wife love your films. You are an inspiration and so brave. Keep on cycling, making films, enjoying life and we wish you a speedy recovery! ❤😊
Wow Susanna, What a courageous woman you are. You were an inspiration before but now you have taken it to a whole new level. Have watched all your videos as I am a cycle tourer. Am feeling uplifted by you.❤❤
Lovely video, thank you for sharing. You are brave and inspirational. I bought a Brompton a year ago, partly from watching your adventures…I enjoy having my own now. Looking forward to seeing more of your adventures.
Hi Chris! Oh that is wonderful that you are enjoying adventures now too on a Brompton! lovely to hear about that! Hope you enjoy exploring places by bike as much as I do. Thanks for writing!
You are the bravest woman😅 beast of luck with your next bike packing trip stay safe
Dear Suzanna, thank you for sharing your latest cycling adventures with everyone. Despite all the personal challenges, you still manage to inspire us all with positivity, strength and love for the little things in life. That is truly admirable.
I wish you a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing many more of your inspiring adventures in the future! ❤
Aw Jerry thank you for the lovely comment. I loved what you said, especially about the little things in life, so nice. Thanks for watching my channel! Best wishes!
I too am sending love, and best wishes, in the hope you beat this awful illness. My cancer was prostrate about four years ago, ok now but the side effects are not nice to be honest. ... I've just come back from Halfords with a smaller chain wheel on my Brompton Urban three speed, I took your kind advice. Hopefully now I'll get to ride it, as soon as the weather improves just a little. I'm still a bit unsure about the front "twitch" so dry roads are a must for me, for the time being. Love the video's kind wishes Susanna. Richard.
Hi Richard! Oh congrats, that's fantastic, about your Brompton. Great! Hope you love the bike. Sorry to hear that you're battling crappy side effects, and everything. Hope you can set all that to the side when you're tootling round on your nifty bike. Mine is definitely a forget-cancer zone. So many places to go and things to see and people to meet on the way. Happy cycling! Best wishes! from my husband too. We are both glad for you about the bike
Hee hee - that was wonderful Susanna!! You made me want to get the camera out again 🤗 Such a great trip and thanks for bringing us along! I seem to desire lots of trips with no camera to eventually find the desire to bring it along with me again - your video seemed to bubble that up to the surface again! Thanks for the reminder with the lyrics ‘we don’t need to work so hard, we don’t need to act so strong..’, even at that you’re a warrior woman!! A warrior that faces life’s obstacles (be they the inconvenience of cancer or a fence to climb over) with grace and the occasional smile! I’ve joined you and bought myself a Hilleberg Akto for its strength - so impressed with being in a strong tent with strong winds hardly ruffling it!! Even the view of a bus still looked like a piece of heaven!! 😂 Loved the church door and your Apple stealing prowess 🎉 Looking forward to more post week 1 treatment trips 🤞😉 Wishing you the best xx
Aw Miriam! so nice of you to write such a nice comment again, omg you were up sooo early!!! haha. I read your comment in bed this morning, so nice to hear from you. I loved your hee hee - cos yeh it was a really happy adventure. Your lovely laugh was a perfect reaction haha. Yeh I liked that song, seemed to fit. Oh that is fab that you got an Akto too. Actually I was out again, couple of weeks ago, and pitched on a cliff in a gale and the tent did do quite a bit of ruffling haha, so that in the middle of the night I even started to think I ought to have read more carefully those instructions you get from Hilleberg, about how to mend tent poles... but then I thought no prob, this little Akto will be just fine. And of course it was. And mine feels huge, esp when I have the inner door rolled up, sooo nice. Oh great you are gonna pick up your camera again! Looking forward to see what you film next!! So in awe of your gorgeous drone shots, omg you are just amazing. Best wishes! 🥰
@@susannathornton my choice of word with ‘ruffling’ definitely wasn’t accurate!! The inner certainly does ruffle about, but I’m impressed with the sturdy pole of the Akto 🤗 I had my own gale experience last night with the tent - holy god…not as forecasted and it caught me out! No lovely drone shots for the sunrise and sunset on this trip 😂 Just me holed up in the tent with a camera and some raging winds!! 🫣 I survived to hopefully tell the tale anyway! I reconciled myself to not learning about the spare pole - I should though and bring it with me too of course!! Glad you’re getting out and about Susanna and thanks for inspiring me to bring the camera with me yesterday - footage could be nonsense of course!! We’ll see 🤕
@@MiriamKennedy oh! we were actually looking at a weather map over the weekend, and thought goodness it was looking wild over there! good you were cosy in your lovely Akto! looking forward to the film! x
When I look at this journey, I notice your attitude to the obstacles encountered: resourcefulness, patience, perseverance. The quality of your videos makes me imagine that I am accompanying you, that I am standing next to you. Believe me, this is not a monologue but a beautiful sharing of your feelings and emotions. Dear Susanna, I am sending you beautiful positive thoughts in the hope that you will heal faster. 🤗
Aw thanks Rog. Glad you like the films! Such a nice comment you made. Actually I started making the films because I wanted to try and show why I enjoy this so much and cos quite a lot of youtube channels about cycling and camping etc seemed to be more about going fast and doing epic long hard rides in amazing places etc which is great of course, but I wanted to show it's nice also to tootle around a bit more slowly, and in sort of 'ordinary' places, wherever I am. So lovely to get feedback like yours. Thank you for watching and for writing!
Fight by living an active and happy life, Sussana! Long live the P!
It must be great to get back to some sense of doing what you normally are able to do. Thanks for taking us along and taking some much care in making the videos.
You're an incredible woman Susanna, and an inspiration to us all. We all support you in your fight against the cancer. Ride on!
I always look forward to the bit of the video where your journey trasitions from the busy hustle bustle of London to the quieter outlaying area's, in this video it was Greenhithe.
There are a lot of apples, nuts and fruits on the tree's this year, and more than usual thats because it's a "Mast year" which means every few years some species of shrub/ tree produce a bumper crop. I've been nogging a few apples too:)
A lovely ride Susanna, it looks very pretty in Kent close to the sea. I've never been to that part of the UK before.
Good luck with the chemo. I had neuro surgery in Oxford some years ago to remove a type of brain tumour called acoustic neuroma. When you go through a serious illness it makes you appreciate everything even more, even the simple things and that comes across well in your videos. Glad you enjoyed the fish n chips :)
Sandy
Aw Sandy thank you so much for the lovely comment, and for writing about your own experiences like that. Sorry to hear that you had to have neuro surgery, sounds really frightening. Yeh, I agree, serious illness makes you appreciate everything so much more. I actually had a coffee today, haha wow so nice, everything about it the taste and the smell and it was exactly the right temperature, and it was a lovely cup to hold as well haha i enjoyed it so much. I saw you doing a film about hot tents crikey I hardly know what they are, I better watch it haha! Thanks so much for writing x
@@susannathornton Ah, I think you will enjoy that video. I went hot tent camping and cycled in to the woods on my Brompton:)
We are counting on you doing well.... We all love your spirit and effort to make great videos..
oh my god, pressure!!! haha thank you for writing x next one soooonnn!!!!
I really admire your sense of adventure, self reliance and your approach to life, with its ups and downs. I hope things are going well for you.
A so elegant and inspiring way to cycle roads, trails and life ! Keep on Susanna. Regards.
The English country side sure has won a place in my heart. Wish I'd have a pint one day in one of those country towns.
You have no idea how happy and grateful I was seeing a new video from you. I’ve been praying for you. 😍💪 Thank you for being strong and courageous. Enjoyed getting a good glimpse of your trip, it was surely not all smooth but heck, you did it ;). And who knows, with the time limitation of the train, you managed to get fish and chips! ❤😂
I watch a few channels to view the landscapes and Brompton adventures. But for some reason I never want your videos to end. They seem to take us away with you. thank you Susanna - appreciate your time given to us. 😊 Hope all is going well.
Aw Vanessa, that is such a nice thing to say! thank you, glad you enjoy the films!
Dear Susanna, what a joy watching your video. Thank you! Lots of love from Bavaria 💖
Aw thank you Barbara! Glad you liked it! Best wishes to you in Bavaria! I was a student for a while in Munich actually, about 100 years ago, thanks to Erasmus programme, really enjoyed my time there. Joined a cycling club there, lovely memories. Anyway, thanks for watching!
@@susannathornton Servus liebe Susanna, dann sind wir uns vor 100 Jahren bestimmt schon über den Weg gelaufen oder geradelt :-) Viele Grüße
PS: Nichts zu danken, es macht wirklich großen Spaß, deine Filme anzuschauen!
Susanna, I watched many of your videos numerous times and just want to say - you have an ability of becoming one with your surroundings in a most natural way possible ... an ability most of us lost. Thank you so so much for grounding me in life xxx
Aw Eva thank you for writing, what a lovely thing to say! glad you enjoy the films! Happy cycling!
Simply wonderful, both you and film. Thank-you
Brilliant, you are a inspiration for everyone , keep them coming .
Brilliant! Good to see that Brompton Therapy helps the cancer treatment. Solidarity to you and may you have the pleasure of many more Brompton adventures.
Hi Susanna, you are amazing getting out there whilst having treatment and thankyou for sharing with us, I know the extra effort involved in filming over just riding. Having grown up in Kent, you are now officially a Kentish scrumper, one apple won't matter, anyway you had earnt it. I sincerely hope all is going well with your treatment (as well as any cemo can). I so hope the gods are on your side. Keep Safe ATB Big Dave Scotland
Sending best wishes. You are an amazing person. Your videos are amazing and so uplifting. All the best
Hello petshark! glad you enjoy the videos! thank you for the lovely comment! more coming soon, I am editing a film here right now, should go to bed haha but I am editing x
Oh, Susanna! I had no idea. I'm sending you lots of love and healing energy from Oregon💌 I think it's brilliant that your doctors have encouraged you to continue adventuring. Thank you for sharing with us. To health!!!
Aw thanks SW x yeh I agree it's brilliant that the team at the hospital encourage me like this. I was kind of hesitating so the specialist nurse who is looking after me linked me up with another of her patients who is a marathon runner, to help me. She is completely bonkers, the marathon runner, and super nice. She had just cycled 100 miles and is not even a cyclist so I thought blimey I am being a bit feeble and better get on with things. Wonderful NHS. I really really appreciate it. We are so fortunate to have this system here in the UK. Thank you for watching! And for the lovely comment! To health and happiness, all of us!
It's always nice to have inspiration. The marathon runner is definitely that. Your NHS is wonderful. Cancer, or any illness, can financially ruin us here in the States. Cancer especially, if treatments top what a person's insurance plan pays. I hope in my lifetime to see a national health care program like yours in place. It's infuriating that has not yet happened--too much money being made by big pharmaceuticals and medical corporations. It's predatory. Anyway, I digress.
Just please know people around the world are thinking of you and wishing you great health and success!
Just love your videos. My God be with you. When I see your videos I think the Lord for keeping you safe, now I ask him to be with you, and be with you and keep you healthy to enjoy riding the way you do. My bike 🚲 came, so fun. love you. Keep being you.
Hi Manuel! Thanks for the lovely comment and all your good wishes! Oh that is great news that you bike has arrived now!! Happy cycling!!
Sending you positive energy and wishes for a speedy recovery. You have inspired my wife and I to tour on our Bromptons here in the US. Onward!
Very nice camping, i love it so much my friend! 💚✨
Your a brave lady. An inspirational journey from start to finish. The two high lights for me were setting up camp and saying we’ve arrived and the fish and chips supper. Many thanks
Hi Ron! Thanks for the lovely comment! Oh it was lovely arriving at that camp and feeling kind of at home in the tent, home sweet home. Haha yes those fish and chips were brilliant. It was a pity that I didn't look around in Margate more really, but I concentrated on fish and chips haha. Next time I should look around. Thanks for watching!
Always follow your Brompton Bikeabouts. Many thanks for your great efforts in producing these videos.
Hi Robert! thanks haha that's nice, Brompton Bikeabout! As nice of you to thank me, but basically I just enjoy making the films, makes me really think about the places and where I was and what it was like, instead of just moving on and forgetting. And then I watch my own films and enjoy them myself haha! Glad you like them too. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing your great cycle touring adventures. I wish you a speedy recovery and all of the best!
Fascinating journey. Love the fact that you just set your destination and go and discover things on the way including busy roads and dead ends. Not many people do this anymore. Thank you for inspiring me to do my own Brompton adventure this summer.
Aw thanks for the lovely comment Algernon! Sounds great that you did a Brompton adventure too. Wonder where you went. Yeh about straight lines, dead ends and things, I like doing that - just looking around, see what is there...
It's always a pleasure to watch your Brompton adventures Susanna. All my best wishes for your continued treatments.
Hello Susanna, just to tell you that you are admirable, you are motivating, my best wishes and thanks for these wonderful tours of these beautiful landscapes, greetings 🙏😊✨💫
Hi Mithu! aw thank you for all your good wishes and your lovely comment!
You are inspiring! Love your determination and resilience despite your health. Beautiful country. I run into your video while researching into buying a Bromptom. Thank you for sharing your journey and wishing you a speedy recovery. Sending healing thoughts. Take care.
Hi Alan! Thanks for the very kind comment! glad you like the film! Happy cycling!
Thank you Susanna for another lovely video. I lived in Gravesend from a child through to age 55, and regularly visited the "prom" to watch the big ships pass. In those days, some still went to the London docks as well as to Tilbury. The river is much quieter these days.
In recent years I have moved to Thanet, and walked the path from Minnis Bay to Reculver and back just last week.
Sorry that we couldn't have organised some better weather for you, especially on day two.....
You are a strong and a remarkable woman. I hope you can weather these latest health problems, and I look forward to seeing many more of your "mini adventure" videos very soon.
Another great video Susanna. Very interesting and enjoyable. Thank you.
Fantastic Susanna....another amazing trip with a few glitches along the way but in true style you plod on and get to your destination, and to top the journey off with fish & chips is just heaven on earth 😃😋🙏 Your an inspiration Susanna and are in my prayers ❤️
This was so pleasant to watch. Thanks for sharing Susanna!
Love the way you map out the journey. Looking forward to doing this next time in UK! Incredible production and wishing you a speedy recovery!!
I am new to your site and just picking around your videos. SO INSPIRED by your travels and your story. Wishing you well in all your adventures. Thank you for sharing with those of us plotting and planning our next adventures.
Hi Kim! thanks for writing and for your good wishes! glad you like the channel! plotting and planning adventures, that sounds good. Best wishes!
So happy to have another of your films to watch 😊.
My mum had similar cycles of treatment and has been clear for the past 10 years.
Blackheath / Greenwich is where i was “raised” until my first job took me Milton Keynes.
The smile on your face says it all 😊
You are a true inspiration. There are times when I can't be bothered to get off my fat lazy arse to open the garage door and just get my bike out. And here's you still making these adventures for us to watch. Thank you X
Living in a tent almost becomes preferred! I’ve watched a few of your videos… god bless you, Andrew
You are very inspiring, and likeable and natural. Keep going I look forward to your videos
aw thank you for watching! glad you like the films!
Totally inspirational! - ultimate respect, amazing positive mental attitude. Keep those wheels turning....
What a lovely surprise. You are spoiling us....watch out we will get to expect it. The scenery was awesome for a person who has never been to UK. That door and the height of the fort. How did soldiers run up and down those stairs and have the energy to defend it. I’m tired at the thought. I love your courageous energy. I wish we could email YOU with some cheerful photos of our lives to help you know you are not alone on the Big C journey. Where I live in Australia the flannel flowers are a sea of white through the national park and the whales are migrating with their babies. Yes I live by the ocean. Summer is almost here.
Love, love, love the video ...keep strong ..I know how it feels...and how good it is to come safely out the other side. You sure are an inspiration...sending love and a huge hug.
I missed you last video so wasn’t aware of your new health concerns you continue to amaze me, have to say seeing you in a cycling cape made me smile I haven’t worn one since around 1985,
I remember flagging down a fellow cyclist wearing a cape when I was driving home from a music lesson and insisting he took mine. I’d been driving around with it in my car waiting for someone who might actually use it.
Some years later I bumped into him in a village iron mongers shop where after retirement he had become part of the furniture so to speak.
I revisited the shop after a few more years and found out he had apparently passed away
The shop had bought a rather fine looking iron bench and placed it in a spot that might come in handy for tired cyclists compleat with a brass plaque in memory of.
I digressed a fair bit there but figured you might enjoy a cycling tale I can still remember him stuffing the cape into his carradice saddle bag.
Am looking forward to your next video whenever that is . 😊
Oh that's a nice story Dave. Really decent of you to give away your gear like that, and so nice that the shop did that bench too! nice place for a tired cyclist to sit and drink a nice hot coffee from their flask - well that's what they would be doing if it was me haha
Lol, after getting over the rails the trail got pretty wild. Another great film. Thanks for continuing to share and inspire. Looking forward to your next update.
Great trip, thanks for taking me along.❤
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! It's always lovely getting to the shore, any shore, where having escaped the crowded tall city, the sky opens up and it feels like you can see forever. I agree it's often all about the small corners of this world where we find treasures. Thanks, Susanna, for finding and sharing some.
Oh that says it really well Brad. I love what you wrote, about reaching a shore... and yes, small corners. Thanks for watching! And please keep writing your inspiring comments!
Loved traveling with you, and your “never let anything beat you” approach. I have not lived in England for the last 14 years, I enjoyed seeing the England I miss so much. You reminded me of my Brompton ride along the Avon canal and the Thames from Bradford on Avon to Reading. Stay well.
Hi Chris! Oh those sound great, the rides you did on the Avon canal and the Thames. I am thinking of exploring more of the upper Thames actually, so hopefully will be kind of following in your tracks soon! Thanks for writing! best wishes to you from back here in England - and hope you got some nice places to explore there where you are now too
Thanks for another great video Susana, so sorry to hear your not well but great to see you being so positive and using your bike to aid your recovery, sure it will help. Best wishes and I look forward to the next one 👍🚴
I live vicariously through your bike rides. Will do more bike riding soon.
Lovely lovely film top scrumping too. 👍Brilliant to see you you again. Thanks so much. Janie
Hi Janie! Thanks for the lovely message! yeh those apples, so tempting 🙄😮🍎 there were loads of huge polytunnels full of strawberries round there too, which smelled amazing 🍓 but I managed to hold back from testing them 😁
Great to see you're still smiling, and I hope those first and second weeks of the cycle aren't too awful for you.
I *really* enjoyed this film - I grew up in Chatham and Rochester and know some of these routes quite well. Particular favourite points for me were seeing the Trafalgar Tavern, where one of our friends had her wedding reception nearly 30 years ago, the industrial and marshland route past Crayford, ST Mary's Higham which is an absolute gem of a church, all the vernacular flint buildings, and the North Kent beaches, which were regular day trip destinations when I was young. Thanks again for sharing all this with us.
Hi Karl! Aw thanks for the lovely comment. Aha so this was all really familiar territory for you! Yeh I thought there were loads of lovely buildings, flint chapels and lovely old pubs and weatherboarded cottages and all sorts, so nice. Yeh I love that bit at Crayford marshes. I have cycled out quite a few times as far as those green bits from the centre of London, just day rides, and it is always nice. A huge mix as you say, metal scrap yards next to the yacht club and everything but I like it. I had never gone beyond there though so it was really exciting to head into Kent. Thanks for writing! Love your films too! I really like how you put the book in at the beginning and the end. Best wishes!
Hope the fish and chips were tasty. I like your nifty little chair. Enjoyed the video and look forward to the next one. I do like how you show these quirky historical places that we tend to overlook or take for granted. Also just to echo the other comments I am so impressed and inspired
by your determination.
Lovely trip 🙂 I always find riding near water very calming and seem naturally drawn to it: lakes,canals, rivers all good but estuaries and the sea hands down favourites.
Hope the weather is kind and allows you a few more trips before winter sets in. Take care.
Another fabulous video. Thank you. I am enjoying the colour coordination in this one - orange bike, jacket, flask 🙂
I also love your determination - nothing really stops you...... thorn bushes, dead ends, major roads etc. You always find a way through. Your Brompton really does so well on some of that terrain!
It's so good that you feel free and can forget the cancer while you are out too. Wishing you all the best with your continued treatment. Sending much love and admiration for your adventuring spirit.
Thanks Penny! yeh not sure how the colour coordination happened really. I am not really known for fashion style haha. I just like those nice cheerful bright things. Thanks for the lovely comment!
So inspiring and enjoyable.Wishing you a complete return to good health.
Hi Susanna. Simply inspirational 🤘🚴♂️. Lovely little jaunt to the seaside to enjoy what you like doing best, despite the battle you are currently waging. Keep on fighting. ATVB from a very wet Malaysia and wishing you a speedy recovery
Hi Razif! Oh I hope there is not flooding or anything like that where you are. Thank you for the lovely comment! Glad you enjoy the films! ATVB back to you from here in England! 😎
You earned that fish and chips at the end! Fantastic ride and great video. Thank you! Wishing you well with your treatment...and many more cycling adventures.
Thanks Jerry!
You are so inspiring to those of us going through our own battles. Thank you for sharing yourself with us.
Your adventures simply make me smile, especially your “off the cuff”, “winging it” attitude.
You should rename these “My third week adventure series”.
I think of you every time I hop on my Brompton.
That's a good idea the "week three" series haha! yeh having a very fixed timetable like this makes me just think, OK do it now! these two days! cos if not I have got to wait another 3 weeks... and that is a good little push
Suzana you are an inspiration to countless people. Keep pedaling. Keep fighting. A kiss and a big hug from a friend here in Brazil.
Happy video! Lovely to see you off on another adventure twixt the energy-sucking rounds of chemo. Loved the apple 😬, the pretty little church and the chish ‘n’ fips at the end, which I could smell! Remember all of us on here are wishing you the very best of health again soonest and have you in our thoughts as you navigate the treatments. So, until the next video … 👍🏻🙂
Aw thanks for the lovely message! yeh energy-sucking is a good way to describe it! hate it. But hey ho. I am really lucky that so far I feel good enough to get out and ride. Sooo lovely! I find the thought that I might be OK to do an adventure makes me work extra hard on boring physio and on getting immediately on top of eye infections and whatnot, in time to head off on my bike. If you know what I mean! Anyway thanks for writing again! Best wishes!
Excellent trip Susanna , it’s great to find somewhere quiet in a busy area and watch the world go by. Some horrible side effects for you to deal with ,just glad you can still get out and do these great road trips atb Dave ⛺️👍
Hi Susanna, keep fighting you are an inspiration and still producing fantastic vlogs. Thank you, Regards and hugs, Jack
Just like to say we'll done for been so positive. I suffer from M. E. (CRONIC FATIGUE) it's something I always try to be with my illness positive. Thanks for your video which encourages me to get out and keep trying. 🚴🚴🚴👍
Aw thanks and well done you too Gerard! Keep going! 👍👍👍
It's so nice to see you are feeling good! Thanks for sharing these good news and your bike journey. 🇧🇷
Hi Eduardo! Thanks for the message! yes I am glad and lucky that I have been feeling good during these "third weeks" each round of chemo. Thanks for watching!
Congratulations Susanna a great video on a whole range of levels. But the way you are dealing with your personal circumstances is particularly inspirational. Thank you.
Susanna you define the best of what it means to live with kindness, humour, and courage. Thank you for another heart warming and truly inspiring video. I hope the treatment plan is a complete success.
Sending lots of positive energy and thoughts your way from an Englishman living in Austria.
Brilliant you are a truly wonderful lady
I am so admirative, you are such a wonderful person ❤
Dear Susanna, you are in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video: I love how you always stop to connect with people! You are an example…courage, adventure, kindness.
Thank you, such a nice message. Glad you like the films x
You keep me watching again and again your videos susana
aw that's nice! glad you like them, actually I like watching them too, I enjoy watching them again and again myself haha!
Hi Susanna,determination,grit,enthusiasm,positivity are just a few words to sum up your videos,keep on Bromptoneering,atb Colin P.
Hi Colin! thanks for the lovely comment! yep keep on going! I've got maps spread over the floor here again right now, having coffee and doing some dreaming haha... so nice!
Yay!! It’s a good weekend that starts with a Susanna video!! Thank you for bringing us along….all of your journeys. ❤❤
Thank you for this great video .I pray you will be looked after ,you are amazing xx
Love your stuff Susanna….thanks for producing your videos, it’s much appreciated. Your many fans wish you well and look forward to many more of your future adventures…ride safely and look after yourself. 👍😀
Hi Andy! oh that's so nice of you. Thank you for the lovely message and good wishes
@@susannathornton not at all….you’re very welcome….you inspire lots of us in the London Brompton Club Facebook group. All rooting for you…😃
Hi Susanna, Lovely video , liked the views! Lots of sunshine in your video haha. Great as always! Please get better, you’re having lots of fun doing this, we have lot’s of fun watching! Thanks and be strong and get well👍🏻
As thanks Alex! Glad you enjoyed the film! I have lots of fun doing the rides, and making the films - and then also lots of fun hearing from everyone. Thanks for being there! Best wishes!
Great to see you on your bike enjoying an adventure and sticking two fingers up at you know what ! Best wishes Susanna.
Aw thanks Adrian. Yeh, trying to give myself a gap when it is *me* in the foreground and I am doing the things I love, and all the cancer treatment stuff is pushed into the background for a while, or completely forgotten, yay! even better!
You are such an inspiration and my all time Rock Star 👍😘
Aw Craig you're so nice. I like that about being rock star haha 🎸😎✨
You are an inspiration susan.
God bless you and good luck x
I'm glad to see you again.
All the best for you and many more wonderful Tours😇🍀💪❤️
Just found your amazing channel, travelogue,scenery, architecture, all very inspiring,
That was another superb video Susanna! That was quite a challenging tour with all those narrow bridges and gates! Hope these video's are helping you recover from the cancer treatment. Best wishes.
You are one awesome inspirational woman. Love the video, get well 👍
Life is for living no matter what.
Wonderful film Susanna. Your more reflective sections were so “right” and in particular when you said “I need to slow down” especially after that horrendous section on the dual carriageway with huge trucks thundering past. Stay well.
Hi John! Aw thanks, glad you liked it! thanks for the lovely comment 🐌😎
Hi susanna I enjoy watching your channel. Hope you get well after your treatment. Your an inspiration for to get out bike trekking. Sammy.
You make every journey so serene and charming. Thank you for being brave and determined and for sharing such marvellous adventures with us. You're an inspiration, Susanna. Wishing you the best of health and happiness.
Aw thanks Chris, really nice of you 😎 all the best to you too!
Susanna!!! I hope you've been well since this video ❤ Thank you forever and always for your videos, I'm so excited to pick up my bike this weekend and go for rides again. The LA River isn't known for beauty, but it's....social 😂🥰😉
Keep it up Susanna! Brilliant - love your videos
Thanks for for another great video. Me and my wife love your films. You are an inspiration and so brave. Keep on cycling, making films, enjoying life and we wish you a speedy recovery! ❤😊
Hi Darryl, thanks for the lovely comment! best wishes to both!
Wow Susanna, What a courageous woman you are. You were an inspiration before but now you have taken it to a whole new level. Have watched all your videos as I am a cycle tourer. Am feeling uplifted by you.❤❤
Aw Bridget thank you, what a lovely message. Happy cycling!!
Lovely video, thank you for sharing. You are brave and inspirational. I bought a Brompton a year ago, partly from watching your adventures…I enjoy having my own now.
Looking forward to seeing more of your adventures.
Hi Chris! Oh that is wonderful that you are enjoying adventures now too on a Brompton! lovely to hear about that! Hope you enjoy exploring places by bike as much as I do. Thanks for writing!
Love your spirit and your use of paper maps!😊
Thank you for making the effort to film and edit for us mere mortals. Get well soon!