The forecast was for a mainly dry day with a chance of a heavy shower so we pessimistically took our rain jackets with us for the planned picnic ride to Barford. We met up with Richard, Steve and Jackie at the start then took a well used route via Gustard Wood and Lilley Bottom via Hexton to reach Lower Stondon Golf Club at 10.45. En-route we had to negotiate several flooded roads which had not drained after the overnight rain.
Adrian and Geoff joined us at coffee and we then followed a westerly route via Cardington where we saw the giant airship tethered outside the hangars.
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| Airship at Cardington |
Fortunately it was still dry as we reached our picnic spot on the banks of the Great Ouse river outside the Anchor pub. Amazingly we spotted a couple of heads in the river apparently pulling coloured balloons which turned out to be two lady wild-water swimmers who walked out of the river at the canoe launch slipway just clothed in swimming costumes - no wetsuits! I think they drag their valuables along in dry bags.
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| Wild-water swimmers |
Stuart from Stevenage joined us as we left the picnic stop for the picturesque ride back via Northill and Southill to our Stotfold mill tea room afternoon break.
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| Great Barford |
After going back via Letchworth and Stevenage we had covered about 75 miles and only got rained on once - indeed by the time we got the rain jackets on the rain stopped.
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