Not the usual slate grey skies in cymru, on this fine bore
dydd!.
Unfortunately a warm
welcome was not to be found at Gladstones library café - invites only for founders day! All was not lost as our old favourite cafe, The Gallery had
just re opened for business, which is probably a good thing as a library of
theology is not best suited to a bunch of noisy, sweaty cyclists.
So, after the usual team selection, our mod + group, Clive,
Chris, Kev and myself headed out west for the hills. Our lunch stop was to be the Eagle and Child, in Gwaenysgor.
I tried to keep the climbing to a minimum on such a warm day, so after Northop
we did the A55 sprint to Halkyn, and onward through Babell, pointing out the
old Holywell racecourse to our history professor Clive. Lol
The lanes were a peaceful delight in the warm sunshine, not
a lot of chat, as our chattiest riders were absent, Steve H, gave blood the day
before and as there was hills, slight breeze, too hot, (take your pick) no
Neil…lol
The Eagle looked lovely with its hanging baskets and tubs of
flowers, small talk over lunch was mainly about the state of modern music,
turns out young Chris is a prog rock fan, who’d have thought.
After the customary photo at the viewpoint we decided to descend
down the 33% hill to the coast and have a nice flat spin home. Around 48 mls
for me, considerably more for the three Cestrians, and thanks to Clive for the
extra routing advice.
AO
See route map and/or gpx file download
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