5th June 2008: Overton Bridge

After a late night celebrating a friend’s birthday in true Italian style the ride out to Holt to join the group at Bellis’s Garden Centre seemed to take somewhat longer than usual. After tea and teacake things looked up and despite a head wind on the winding back lanes we then made good progress to Bangor on Dee past the Race Course and on to Overton Bridge for lunch at the Cross Foxes pub. It was then south on a short detour to Erbistock before heading north to Erddig. It being Thursday, the house and café was closed but we enjoyed the ride through the park before following the cycle route signs to Wrexham Town Centre where we scrambled into a café in time to miss a sudden heavy shower. Once out of Wrexham it was back on to the lanes with a brief stop at Hoseley Bank to take in the views over the Cheshire plain before completing the return journey through Lavister and Eccleston to Chester.
Distance from Chester and back 48 miles, flat.
BW