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Our mini heatwave has broken, things are back to normal, rain, overcast, sun - and that was just before lunch today! Indeed there was enough wet yesterday to cause my ride to be postponed until today hence the late posting.
Thursday however, I did go out for what was supposed to be a gentle ride which turned into 125km and nearly 1500m of climbing! I didn't really go anywhere, a loop around Bath essentially with lunch on the Somerset Coal Canal - surely one of the shortest in the land at @ 500m long! By the time I got back I was be-jiggered but I soon revived with a series of fluid top ups.
Friday was a bit warm to do very much and then Saturday was a bit wet to do much!
Which brings us to today. My plan was deliberately short, a shopping trip to the Thatchers Cider factory at Sandford, not for me I hasten to add, although I do like a drop of fermented apple, no, this was a present for my kinder. Now I could have just gone to the local super market and bought the same stuff but I thought it'd be nice to get it at source so to speak - I rode through some of the orchards on the way, the smell is sublime. Of course I couldn't leave it at that so despite being loaded with several bottles of cider I then took a less than direct or even level route back, accumulating most of the days 850m in the last 60km of the 100km ride.
Today's Gaby is Salvation, part 14 of Ontario in which Maddy, she of the stowaway and traipse through Germany, finally gets rescued. It was a bit sad at the end as she finds herself in the Ahrtal, I keep thinking of the devastation that was visited there 9 days ago.
That's it for today, time for supper which tonight is rhubarb pie, mmmmm!
Tschussie,
Madeline Anafrid
