Ride report by Mark M
Chris, Doug and Mark met at PC on a very humid morning with a fairly light south westerly wind and a forecast of showers. It was a relief to get moving and having the breeze cool us down as we went down to Itteringham and then to Oulton to pick up Neil.
The plan was to go through Heydon Park, but the route was closed, so we diverted down the main B1149 to Heydon Road and rejoined our route to Cawston. Then we had some good fast roads down to Felthorpe and across to Attlebridge and the customary stop at the bridge for a breather before crossing the busy A1067 and up the hill to Weston Longville. We went past the old Attlebridge airfield and Hockering Wood to get to the first bridge over the A47, then it was through Mattishall, past a recently permanently closed Tabnabs and on to South Green Park to the café. South Green Park is a small business centre run by Poultec Training, which has meeting rooms, a new gym centre and a large café, with loads of indoor and outside seating, surrounded by grass and a pond.
We initially sat outside and watched a Moorhen family come very close looking for food scraps. We had just been served our drinks, when it started to drizzle and the wind was blowing it under the table parasol, so we bravely retreated into the café for our lunch. There seemed to be a communication problem between the order placed at the till and the information received in the kitchen as they managed to get 50% of the lunch orders wrong. They sorted the orders out though Doug did have to wait a long time for his, not that anyone noticed! Despite the issues we all agreed that it was worthy of another visit in the future.
When we set off we headed through Mattishall and up to North Tuddenham, crossing the A47 by another bridge. We stopped at Dans Farm for some excellent ice cream tubs, kindly bought by Doug. Then with the wind helping us we went through Elsing, up to Sparham then Nowhere Lane to Kerdiston, Thurning and Little London, where Neil turned off for home.
By now there were a lot of very black clouds and the wind had picked up and was swinging around to the north, which didn’t help progress. On the hill up to Edgefield, Chris showed that his form last Saturday was not a fluke, by leading to the top. When we got to the climb to the pylons at Bodham Hill he left me behind again and wasn’t interested in my excuses! It was now cool and drizzling, so Chris went home via Upper Sheringham, at Red Barn lane Doug continued to Cromer and I returned to PC.
PC to PC 59 miles at an average 15.2 mph
Riders: Doug H, Chris S, Neil Mc, Mark M
Upcoming Rides –
Wednesday 7th August – Chrysalis Café, Sparham Hill
Saturday 10th August – Norton’s, Walsingham
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