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huggeroftrees) wrote2011-07-03 01:49 pm
huggeroftrees) wrote2011-07-03 01:49 pm
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Sometimes I think I have a problem with my brain being missing :D
So, got up at 4:30 to cycle 20 miles to see the Tall Ships sail out. [I popped over yesterday to see them in harbour (and buy binoculars[1] and a map for the cycling)].
Just got back after doing 30 miles (nice friends gave me a lift part of the way back) with a tan line on one leg and a big oil smear on the other. Have showered (for the suntan cream), Moisturised (for the sun burn) and eaten an ice-cream (cos it's summer and that's what you do).
So worth it. :D
The cycle out was amazing, the sun rising at my back, mist in the fields hiding what was land and what was sea with just the windmills and the Saltees sticking up identifiably. It's a fantastic road, just high enough to see all the way down to the Southern Coast across rolling fields. Usually I hate to cycle on it because it's stuffed to the gills with drivers in a hurry who pass too close and hate all cyclists with a passion. But at 5am? Totally empty. My road, my lovely road. I could pick the smoothest spots, wobble into the middle when enraptured by the view. Oh, it was brilliant.
And now I have sausage rolls. Best day ever. Fact.
I cycled over to watch them "sail" down the river, unfortunately due to the lack of wind (and the upriver direction of the little wind there was) they all came down under engines. Some did put up a jib or backsail to show interest, but only this one came down fully rigged. She came down almost at the end of the flotilla, but she was more than worth waiting for.
[1] I have binoculars now, binoculars are cool.
Just got back after doing 30 miles (nice friends gave me a lift part of the way back) with a tan line on one leg and a big oil smear on the other. Have showered (for the suntan cream), Moisturised (for the sun burn) and eaten an ice-cream (cos it's summer and that's what you do).
So worth it. :D
The cycle out was amazing, the sun rising at my back, mist in the fields hiding what was land and what was sea with just the windmills and the Saltees sticking up identifiably. It's a fantastic road, just high enough to see all the way down to the Southern Coast across rolling fields. Usually I hate to cycle on it because it's stuffed to the gills with drivers in a hurry who pass too close and hate all cyclists with a passion. But at 5am? Totally empty. My road, my lovely road. I could pick the smoothest spots, wobble into the middle when enraptured by the view. Oh, it was brilliant.
And now I have sausage rolls. Best day ever. Fact.
I cycled over to watch them "sail" down the river, unfortunately due to the lack of wind (and the upriver direction of the little wind there was) they all came down under engines. Some did put up a jib or backsail to show interest, but only this one came down fully rigged. She came down almost at the end of the flotilla, but she was more than worth waiting for.
[1] I have binoculars now, binoculars are cool.