Friday's ride.. Posted late, as usual.
I was meeting up with my sister in Grantchester at 11:00, so decided to drive to St. Ives with the bike in the car, stop at the Park & Ride for £1 and ride the 18 ish miles alongside the guided bus route to Cambridge.
I was taking a small hydrangea bush, grown from a cutting from my dad's old plant. It just hung on the rack, in a cornflakes box and a couple of bungee cords and arrived safe and complete
Brilliant shared user path. Wide, clear, with a smooth surface. Maybe Northampton could learn a thing or two about maintenance and design!!
Through Cambridge was easy as I followed a chap after asking him the best route to Grantchester.
Once there, and had met up, I locked the bike up at the Orchard Tearooms and we went for a stroll for several miles around the local footpaths and nature reserve.
Decent coffee, and an artisan scone
After another wander across the Meadows, we retired to the pub for an orange juice and lemonade before she gave me a lift half a mile back to my bike, where I picked up an aspidistra grown from a cutting from my grandmother's Victorian plant (this fit in my rucksack, so didn't I have to lash it down on the rack!)
On the way back through Cambridge, I stopped for a pic or two. This is St John's college, one bridge up from the Bridge of Sighs, then a few wiggles through the old city to get back to the cycle path back to my car.
The windmill, in Over, alongside the guided bus route.
Back to the car just as the sun was setting.
Lovely ride, sunny, chilly, dry and virtually windless!
43½ miles total. 37 on the bike, 5 walking and ½ mile in a car. Sort that out, Strava!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1288650964
I was meeting up with my sister in Grantchester at 11:00, so decided to drive to St. Ives with the bike in the car, stop at the Park & Ride for £1 and ride the 18 ish miles alongside the guided bus route to Cambridge.
I was taking a small hydrangea bush, grown from a cutting from my dad's old plant. It just hung on the rack, in a cornflakes box and a couple of bungee cords and arrived safe and complete
Brilliant shared user path. Wide, clear, with a smooth surface. Maybe Northampton could learn a thing or two about maintenance and design!!
Through Cambridge was easy as I followed a chap after asking him the best route to Grantchester.
Once there, and had met up, I locked the bike up at the Orchard Tearooms and we went for a stroll for several miles around the local footpaths and nature reserve.
Decent coffee, and an artisan scone
After another wander across the Meadows, we retired to the pub for an orange juice and lemonade before she gave me a lift half a mile back to my bike, where I picked up an aspidistra grown from a cutting from my grandmother's Victorian plant (this fit in my rucksack, so didn't I have to lash it down on the rack!)
On the way back through Cambridge, I stopped for a pic or two. This is St John's college, one bridge up from the Bridge of Sighs, then a few wiggles through the old city to get back to the cycle path back to my car.
The windmill, in Over, alongside the guided bus route.
Back to the car just as the sun was setting.
Lovely ride, sunny, chilly, dry and virtually windless!
43½ miles total. 37 on the bike, 5 walking and ½ mile in a car. Sort that out, Strava!
https://www.strava.com/activities/1288650964
