52 cafes in 52 weeks - challenge

[Cathryn]

Has your lurgy gone yet mine started Sat with a positive test just got my first clear test this mornin. Hope you’re ok.

Pretty much gone. Hoping to hit the cafes* this weekend.

(Cycle very gently to a cafe)

 

[Cathryn]

Cafe 15 on a very easy short ride with my son to see how I was feeling post Covid.

Bunce’s, Marlborough. Usually a local favourite but really poor customer service today so a bit disappointed. My chai latte was also disappointing but my son’s cake and hot chocolate were both excellent!

 

[DCLane]

Cafe 17, Week 13: Sails Cafe, Skidby.

After the race today - less said the better - we stopped at Sails Cafe in Skidby, near Hull. Lovely place based around the courtyard of an old windmill. Note that parking is about 100 metres/110 yards away.

Stock photo as the teenager was grumpy:

 

[DCLane]

Cafe 18, week 13: West Park cafe, Goole.

Great service, well priced, lots of space. And I forgot a food photo:

 

[Cathryn]

Cafe 16 on the best ride of the year so far! Sun drenched, Spring filled and excellent company. The Rowdey Cow cafe! Decent food and coffee but lovely outdoor seating next to some donkeys.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

9. 26.2.22 The Cornwall Bakery in Ambleside. Very good coffee and scone. Only one table to sit at, so more of a takeaway really.
10. 27.2.22 Esquires Coffee in Ambleside. Organic coffee and cake with fiendishly expensive prices to match (cake was £5.95!). That said, they didn't bat an eyelid when two drowned rats turned up dripping all over the place.

11. 2.4.22 Turquoise cafe in Macclesfield. My usual haunt was shut due to staff shortages, so I thought I'd try this one. It's a Turkish sandwich bar and was very good, I'll certainly go back and will put on the map. A fair few seats inside. My wife had their own breakfast (spicy sausages and egg with other accompaniments), I had a very nice tuna melt panini.
Bonus photos aswell!

 

[HelenD123]

The Spanish installments start here

Cafe 14 Bar New Ziroks next to the supermarket, close to the airport. Sparkling water and patatas bravas sat in the sun before we properly hit the road.

Cafe 14 Restaurante Montellano Asador near Gergal. Coffee was ok. Cakes looked pre-packagef and we didn't bother.

Cafe 15 Camping Las Menas. Superb hot chocolate and coffee, particularly when it's snowing outside. A great welcome from José and a log fire

 

[Cathryn]

@HelenD123 you are crushing this! And it looks like so much fun!

 

[Always Cross]

Cafes 11 and 12 today. Pickleberry cafe in Bratton tea and bread pudding nice. Then a hot chocolate at the top of Cain hill flight of locks. I'm bit behind missed one weeks cafe due to an audax then 2 weeks missed because of covid. Forgot to get photo of Pickleberry cafe will get it when I go past next time.

 

[Cathryn]

Cafes 11 and 12 today. Pickleberry cafe in Bratton tea and bread pudding nice. Then a hot chocolate at the top of Cain hill flight of locks. I'm bit behind missed one weeks cafe due to an audax then 2 weeks missed because of covid. Forgot to get photo of Pickleberry cafe will get it when I go past next time.

I like Pickleberry and it’s a lovely name as well!! I need to go back this year!

 

[Always Cross]

They would have been busy yesterday as the were a control for an Audax riding out from Reading

 

[Cathryn]

Cafe 17! Such a gorgeous day! Sticks and Stones in Woodborough. Met my husband and son there after 12 miles (son is recovering from Covid) and we had panini and coffee in the sun. Absolutely wonderful ride today, literally full of the joys of spring!

 

[Cathryn]

Cafe 18 on an overnighter in London. Post my morning run so no bike today! The breathtakingly named F*ckoffee in Bermondsey. Effortlessly cool, friendly baristas and migraine-inducing coffee (my fave type).

 

[Tail End Charlie]

11. 2.4.22 Turquoise cafe in Macclesfield. My usual haunt was shut due to staff shortages, so I thought I'd try this one. It's a Turkish sandwich bar and was very good, I'll certainly go back and will put on the map. A fair few seats inside. My wife had their own breakfast (spicy sausages and egg with other accompaniments), I had a very nice tuna melt panini.
Bonus photos aswell!

12. 15.4.22 "Tea room at number 11" in the centre of Audlem. I had tried to get into The Old Priest's House in Audlem (a favourite of mine) but it was shutting up. The tea room was good with a bonus ice cream from the post office next to it. A bit of a panic when I realised I didn't have my wallet or phone with me, but luckily my wife had a card.
It was our wedding anniversary today (one of two, no I haven't been married twice, but we got married on Good Friday, so that's one and the other is the actual date). Mozzarella panini for me and BLT for my wife. Both very tasty.
Sorry no photos, when I realised I'd left my wallet somewhere, I was rushing to get back as there was a possibility I had left them on my van (I hadn't as it turned out).

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Cafe 18 on an overnighter in London. Post my morning run so no bike today! The breathtakingly named F*ckoffee in Bermondsey. Effortlessly cool, friendly baristas and migraine-inducing coffee (my fave type).

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Hmmm not sure about the name, it would put off the prude in me!! Ah, bikes welcome, they're forgiven.