The weather was indeed kind today. The grey drizzle of 0700 gave way to bright blue and sun by breakfast time, 0830. It was already quite evident that York would be on the cards.
Mine host Nigel - a keen cyclist himself, off to the World's in Richmond VA in three weeks' time - got the bikes out of store, and we were packed up and gone by 0945. The plan was to identify a B road leading into York, park up at a village a few miles out and ride in. It worked a treat, and we found parking at a sports centre, but, if this was a B road, thank the Lord we didn't choose an A road; the traffic was heaving, with queues from miles out.
The old centre of York was not too thronged, and we could get about easily. The Shambles, Minster, street entertainers, musicians, River Ouse and city walls were all taken in. And then the trip back out to the car, a quick change out of cycling gear and the route home. Forest did his début drive on the wrong side of the road and the wrong side of the car - hard to say which is the more distracting - from coffee stop on the M1 back to Sutton Maddock. Exemplary, as expected.
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