52 cafes in 52 weeks - challenge

[Tail End Charlie]

Cafe 22, 16.7.22. The Tea Room (that is it's name, the owners obviously agonised over it) King St in the centre of Knutsford (opposite the Elizabeth Gaskell tower). Beside a very good cheese shop too.

 

[Sallar55]

Cafe 5 Drymen, latte, fruit scone and jam for a change. Points off for not asking if I want a glass of water.

 

[Sallar55]

Arran cycle 6,7and 8. Machrie golf club, Lochranza ferry cafe and Brodick cafe at ferry.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Cafe 23, 20.7.22 Riverside Organic Farm Shop, Davenham, nr Northwich.
I had intended going to Oakwood Marina nearby, but it is shut on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so I carried on a little further and stopped here. Great surroundings, lovely views over the valley to Davenham church. Loads of seating outdoors and indoors. Goats, sheep and a donkey to pet, what's not to like?!

 

[DCLane]

Café 37, week 29: Bluebird Bakery (and café), Holmfirth

I was intending to go somewhere else, but it'd become a café bar so it was out. Then I saw this one, which was new.

Nice coffee, very nice but small cake.

One option left in Holmfirth to go to, one just outside, then I'm off to other places having tried them all

 

[Cathryn]

Cafe 35. The Polly Tea Rooms, a Marlborough institution. Celebrating the end of the school year…my first year as a teacher that wasn’t cut short due to the pandemic! Time to rest before our tour starts on Tuesday! 🎉

 

[Always Cross]

DC Lane are those cafes near you I'm being sneeky and saving some local ones for when the winter bad weather comes in

 

[DCLane]

DC Lane are those cafes near you I'm being sneeky and saving some local ones for when the winter bad weather comes in

They're about 15 miles or so from me. And I've a pile in other directions still to visit, together with lots nearby.

Basically son no. 2 does Dewsbury-Huddersfield-Holmfirth-Holme Moss and back as a training ride. If I'm around I'll ride as cover just in case.

 

[DCLane]

Café 38, week 29: Leeds Urban Bike Park, Leeds

A bit 'cheaty' this, as I was on my way home whilst getting Turf zones, but I was feeling tired. Today was graduation day and my first 'full' day back in work post-Covid. It showed that I'm nowhere near recovered.

It's the café and bike shop at the mountain bike park constructed in Middleton, Leeds. Free to use, a coffee and warm but crumbly Bakewell was £5.40

 

[Cathryn]

Café 38, week 29: Leeds Urban Bike Park, Leeds

A bit 'cheaty' this, as I was on my way home whilst getting Turf zones, but I was feeling tired. Today was graduation day and my first 'full' day back in work post-Covid. It showed that I'm nowhere near recovered.

It's the café and bike shop at the mountain bike park constructed in Middleton, Leeds. Free to use, a coffee and warm but crumbly Bakewell was £5.40

This sounds exciting. Bookmarking for my next trip to Leeds.

 

[Sallar55]

Cafe 9 Bernies in Bridge of Wier, raining so no outside pic. Not the usual Stornoway black pudding 😩 today. Up in Glasgow yesterday coffee in the Black Sheep cafe in Sauchiehall St, don't think I have ever locked my bike up outside a cafe in Glasgow. Can't count it no pic. Another time perhaps.

 

[DCLane]

Café 39, week 30: The Boathouse Café, Newmillerdam (Wakefield)

By the lake it's a small, but lovely, place. Expensive but worth it. Access is on a gravel path, but accessible for road bikes. I should have got the lake on my right but had the table staff stood right behind me.

Coffee and a slice of cake for £5.90

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Cafe 24, 23.7.22 Mustard cafe on Chestergate in the middle of Macclesfield. This used to be the "Velo" cafe, which was popular and gave discounts to cyclists, but it appears to have changed hands (cyclists are not exactly the last of the big spenders). Sat outside (pedestrianised part of Macc) and had a very good cappucino and a toastie. I'm trying to cut down on the cake aspect of cafe visiting as they have got a little pricy and not good value for me. Time will tell if I can resist the siren call of carrot cake.
Sorry no photos, but I will definitely be visiting this one again.

 

[Sallar55]

Cafe 24, 23.7.22 Mustard cafe on Chestergate in the middle of Macclesfield. This used to be the "Velo" cafe, which was popular and gave discounts to cyclists, but it appears to have changed hands (cyclists are not exactly the last of the big spenders). Sat outside (pedestrianised part of Macc) and had a very good cappucino and a toastie. I'm trying to cut down on the cake aspect of cafe visiting as they have got a little pricy and not good value for me. Time will tell if I can resist the siren call of carrot cake.
Sorry no photos, but I will definitely be visiting this one again.

Why don't you post a pic everyone else does.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Why don't you post a pic everyone else does.

I don't usually have a camera with me. Hard to believe I know, but I tend not to take my mobile with me on a ride.