Day Two - Sunday

Photo - C.C.Pittock.

Paul got up at 8:30, but I didn’t surface until after 9, with a stiff back after Saturdays ride. Fortunately my sore bits had settled down some what.

Breakfast = Sausages, bacon, scrambled egg & toasted bread. All was local produce, ably cooked by Paul, our resident chef. A feast suitable for weary travellers, like ourselves. I did the washing up.

It was a bright sunny day and after much planning & map studying, we rode to Keswick to do food shop for the week. Paul, being a chef, chose lots of interesting items which I had no idea how to cook. We also decided to buy a 5 litre barrel of Wheat Beer.

On returning to our bikes we loaded our tank bags to their brims and strapped the beer securely to my rack. It was at this point the zip that secures my tank bag to its based decided to burst. It took us nearly 20 minutes to undo it and it refused to do up again. This meant we needed to repack the bags and I had to use the rucksack straps to get it back to the caravan.

We spent the afternoon resting and planning Mondays riding. We came up with a route that included a visit to Carlisle in the hope of finding a bike shop with a replacement tank bag.

For dinner Paul rustled up a mean Curry using one very hot Chilli. My contribution was washing the rice and cleaning up afterwards. I felt bad about letting Paul do all the cooking as he does this for a living. He did however assure me that he didn’t mind.

Photo - P.Moulding

Photo - C.C.Pittock

Photo - P.Moulding

Photo - P.Moulding

After dinner we walked to a local stone circle, aptly called Castlerigg Stone Circle. Unfortunately the weather was a little cloudy and any hope of sunset shots of the stones were dashed. By the time we headed back, it was virtually dark and I had already flattened my first set of camera batteries. Not good news this early in the week. We stopped at the side of the main road to take some light trail photos, which worked far better with Paul’s camera with its 16second shutter setting. Mine is not so flexible and can only manage 2.5 seconds.

Photo - C.C.Pittock

Back at the caravan we watched a little TV and stuffed our faces with chocolate cake.

Today = 3 Miles.

Total So Far = 343 Miles.