Due to the inclement
weather, riding to the Bradbury Centre in Kingston I wasn’t too sure how many
would turn up, however 9 other hearty souls braved the conditions and we set of just
after 11-15 for our destination to Harmondsworth, negotiating our way through Mkt
Place and over Kingston Bridge, right into Sandy Lane to Teddington and Hampton
Hill avoiding Bushy Park just in case it was slippery.
Avoiding the main
Uxbridge Road we rode the parallel Hanworth Road to Hanworth and Feltham,
skirting the South West of Heathrow through Stanwell, Stanwell Moor across the
M25 to Poyle were the sleety weather started in earnest, right, back over the
M25 near Longford, we were now riding in the real stuff, but by now it was just
a mile or two to The Five Bells pub, although the pace was brisk, I started with
10 and there were still 10 of us for lunch, with a table of ten reserved for us,
with just one other customer there all lunch time it wasn’t really necessary but
a kind thought.
After being well fed
and putting the world to rights as is customary at lunch times it was back onto
the bikes, unfortunately into a slight
Easterly wind, although by now the sleet and snow had
stopped.
Through Sipson,
Harlington, Cranford, Heston, Osterley, Spring
Grove to Isleworth.
It would have been
along the Tow Path to Richmond but this looked very icy so it was
along the main road across the A316 to the south side of the bridge to the café
under the bridge. I made it 29 miles from Kingston to tea, hopefully all got home before
lights were required.
Frank C
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