June 19, 2024
To Llanidloes
Short ride, short post. I promise.
We were both a little surprised to see how short today’s ride was, barely fifteen miles to move from one three night stay to the next. Oddly enough neither of us was complaining much though. Maybe we finally are getting of a mind to stop moving around quite so much as we have in the past seven years.
It would have been a fine day for a longer ride though. Weather is ideal - sunny and about five degrees warmer than yesterday - and the route is excellent as we ride empty tarmac roads and follow the steadily diminishing Wye the whole way. It’s the route chosen by all of the NCN 8, NCN 81, and EV2, so it’s obviously the best choice. With all that going for it, who are we to complain if it includes a 15-17% slope here and there? Not the intrepid Team Anderson!
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Video sound track: Hillside View, by Ancient Future
We arrive at the Unicorn Hotel not long after one, safely in time for their lunch service which ends at two. Its one we took pains not to miss since the hotel’s restaurant won’t be open for dinner and there are few other choices in this small town. Rachael enjoyed her mountainous Chicken Taj Gourmet Buttie, but my duck was pretty tough and rubbery. No complaints about the bubbly bottle of Butty Bach though.
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Were done and in our room before three, leaving plenty of time for a walk along the river and into the wooded preserve across on the other side. But that can wait. If I included that this wouldn’t be the short post I promised.
Today's ride: 15 miles (24 km)
Total: 2,236 miles (3,598 km)
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From the moorlands in the meadows
To the city of the shadows
Where I wander old and lonely
Comes a call I understand
In clear soft notes enthralling
It is calling, ever calling
'Tis the spirit of the open
From the dear old borderland
2 months ago
I haven’t heard Borderlands before, but we do know the Tweed. In our first tour of the UK (Northern Britain 2005) we biked east up the Tweed from Berwick to the great ruined Borderland abbeys. It’s country I’d love to see again someday.
You’re plotting out a possible tour through there?
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