23 Sep 2018: St Albans to Great Missenden

The weather this weekend would have been described by other European nations as typically British. In 10°C warm rain Justin and Ronny went out for a short ride to the morning stop and back.

In the end the rain didn't turn out to be the most annoying thing, but the flooding of many roads was. This hid the potholes; hence we had to go slowly in many places. However, even in the rain the landscape was still pretty, like the small woods around Bedmond, the lovely villages, such as Flaunden, or the nice countryside around Latimer. Around that area the cold started to become more noticeable, so we were quite happy about the hill up to Amersham.



After few more kilometres we reached the elevenses stop in Great Missenden, where we warmed up and replenished the energy reserves. On our way back we followed the National Cycle Route 57. It started with the hill up to South Heath, which allowed us to warm up again after feeling quite cold on the first few meters.

With a tailwind we reached Chesham quickly and by then the rain had stopped. This turned out lucky for us, because a puncture needed some attention. After fixing it, we warmed up again on White Hill.

Unexpectedly early the sun broke through the clouds when we passed Bovingdon, hence before the last hill up Bunker's Lane it was time to put away the rain gear and we arrived in St Albans in nice sunny weather.

Ronny 23/09/2018