Sadly, no shower this morning, and all I’ll say about the portaloo in the corner of the field I’ve just said… Another cold night, clear skies are a mixed blessing, but I was a bit more prepared. The police helicopter at 3 AM was not welcome though.
There’s a lot of dew on the tent in the morning, so while it’s dry inside I’m having to pack it wet. Luckily I was able to stake it all out when I arrived here this evening. So while I had my coffee it dried in the warm sunny wind.
Anyway, I had my coffee and porridge and was off around 0900
The cycling today wasn’t too bad. Pretty flat, mainly tow paths and city/town bike routes. The tow paths were pretty, but varied a great deal… Nearly ended up in the canal once or twice!
Lunch was in a lovely tea room in Shenton, I think they also sold antiques there, but it was a lovely garden and a massive baked potato with cheese and coleslaw and baked beans 🤗
The silver foil contains cake (of course).
A rather varied afternoon… Let me see if I can grab some stills from the GoPro…
Nice canal path
Not so pathy, canal path
Road
Woodland track
A little bit too mountain bike…
Yup, a field
Anyway… arrived safely. Lovely campsite up top of hill. Macaroni Cheese for dinner, was very nice. I have electricity and there are warm clean showers.
Tomorrow… I head for the Peak District. I’m gonna call it the first mountain stage 😎
Also.. I’ll join Route 68, the Pennine Cycleway… And I’ll stay on that most of the rest of the way.
Check out my ride on Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/1810052380/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1535735564