Well today’s ride….woke up and looked out and was surprised - ice, ice baby ( Vanilla Ice ); anyway just thought let’s go . The gang that showed- me plus my driver, DH, Steve Tan in casual attire due to impending holiday (recovering as well from an introduction to asphalt), Shane, the half Welsh duo SHu and Alan, Clive, Ken, Nick, Ray and a late arrival representing the mob that can shift at a fast pace for ages,whereas me and my partner Dave kept to the script - moderate or as some car drivers liked to say knobs get a move on .
We headed after no discussion at all to Overton via lanes
that were extremely muddy and icy so we took care to behave. The route started by passing through Tattenhall to get to Overton via a route made on the fly by
Dave, who, as usual, put Garmin and other twenty first century navigation
equipment to shame by using a map with more creases than my holiday luggage. We
meandered through lots of exotic locations - Duckington, Tilston skirting Malpas
to Tallarn Green, then to Holly Bush and
into Overton, stopping for food at the Two Doves cafe . The lunch time
discussion was…. oh well, time to crack on.
The route back was also cold, even with a good winter sun
out, but the ice had mostly thawed. One thing that had been evident was the
amount of flooding that has happened, with the lanes muddy and lots of water
left, but these where actually helpful identifying the pots. Anyway, the route
back went via Bangor on Dee passing the small but very popular horse racing
venue, on towards Worthenbury, Shocklach, back through the hood commonly known
as Tilston ( Runcorn pubs don’t have tether points for our ponies) then passing
Carden Park golf club ( so wanted to shout 'fore!' to a bunch of golfers.. what a
game). Anyway we then bumped into the Welsh partnership finishing their cycle
meander around Cheshire lanes, whereas me and Dave had crossed the border into
Wales, I only have one question concerning this. Why did the sheep all run in
the opposite direction when Dave was passing? Just a thought . We finally
arrived back at the cafe in Tattenhall Alison’s. 38/ 44 miles in great company putting the
world to rights.
KB
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