The South coast is too far the wrong way for me so …
125 mile Tour de TOWiE
10am start at High Beech Tea Hut, Kings Oak comfort break if required.
TOWiE route towards Cambridge.
Lunch at Bosworth’s Tea Rooms.
Essex section of Tour de France stage 3.
4pm back at High Beech Tea Hut.
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Tell the ditches to keep away from me :ermm:
Where exactly is the beech hut? Whenever I put in beech hut Epping forest, it doesn’t come up…but harrods does…
edit: that’s the route we took when TheOC took the wrong turn and we doubled backe at the roundabout to turn left into Avey Lane instead of the more direct right turn into Avey Lane
It chucked it down on the way to High Beech, visibility was down to a couple of car lengths and to be honest the thought did cross my mind to turn it in, but hey ho its only wetter. Stopped off at the Kings Oak on the way, as you do, where I bumped into Kris and the Eastern European/IAM motorcycle photography club who were heading off to do their thing in easterly direction.
Doss and Blade braved the British Summer, although as per previous form Blade took an early bath, a proper early bath. By 10.30 tea hut time waterproofs were packed away, steamy tea was doing what only steamy tea can do, the rain had stopped and we were off on our merry way. As we closed in on Cambridge the roads had dried out and the the sun had got its hat on and it turned into a superfine riding day. Bosworth’s was virtually empty when we arrived but packed out by the time we left and the whole of Finchingfield was a mass of patio tables & chairs, marques, tents and all manner of festive bits and bobs.
The route back was way marked with bright yellow ‘Tour de France’ signs and all the villages had made some effort to welcome us The Tour tomorrow. Roxwell were holding their own take on the event with their very own ‘Tour de Roxwell’. Other villages did it their way, there was the pub with its figure head bear wearing a ‘King of the Mountains’ red polky dot jersey, a washing line full of yellow jerseys and a green & cream 2CV sporting a French tricolour with a bicycle crashing through the soft top, you’ll see it all on telly tomorrow.
is it 125 friendly?
slept in and have just woken up with a banging headache :crying: