Saturday, August 18, 2018

15th August (cloudy, mild, sunny patches) 28 km


A cooler night meant a better sleep and we weren’t up until 6.30am this morning.  Had a very leisurely morning with Peg, Andy, Jimmy, Elizabeth and Phillip, breakfasting and packing our bags in preparation for the start of our journey to Barcelona.
Leaving 1 Greenfields Drive for the last time

Phillip and Elizabeth have also done some cycle touring and decided to accompany us on this first leg of our trip to Chester.  As we set off from Peggy’s, with our bikes loaded up for the first time, we wobbled a bit.  Our bikes felt heavy and cumbersome but we soon fell into the plod of the road and as the day wore on, we got more used to the new dynamic.  It was Elizabeth’s birthday today so once we arrived in Chester after a lovely traffic free ride along the numerous cycle paths round these parts, we shouted them both to lunch. Nice pub lunch which I thought was pretty reasonable for four of us.
A walk through the city afterwards to find Julia a helmet, as she hasn’t worn one since we got here, finally resulted in us ending up at Evans Cycles, where the purchase took place. 
Walking through the beautiful city of Chester
Said goodbye to Elizabeth and Phil and grabbed the bikes, to pedal back along the canal to Blacon, where we took that exit and made our way to David and Jane Mann’s home. We had stayed with David at the end of our 2016 tour, however Jane had been away in Spain, so this was our first meeting.
Jane is a bubbly, fun loving person who we immediately took a liking to. She was a fitness trainer but now concentrates her time on her photography, which she is extremely good at. She has her studio at her beautiful home and her speciality is baby portraits. She has done a fantastic job setting up her studio and it’s warm and welcoming and of course, full of light.
David and Jane have a lot of interesting stories and we have a lot of common interests so for the remainder of the late afternoon and evening, it was very easy to chat about a variety of subjects over a delicious dinner, finally getting to bed at
midnight.

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