Ariadne Wrapped

The promise of Jeremy’s flat route meant that Charles had abandoned his trusty e bike in favour of his trusty push bike, possibly forgetting that having ridden to the start, he’d have to pedal back up the hill to Chrishall.

For the Summer end of May, it was flippin’ cold as 15 of us gathered at Cafe 19, Duxford for today’s ride. Given the amount of traffic likely to be encountered, three groups of five riders was the order of the day. A variety of routes out of Duxford took us over a very busy A505 onto quieter roads through Shelford and out to Hauxton.

Here we joined the Hauxton – Trumpington cycle way through the nature reserve (prolific dandelions replacing last years prolific cowslips) and into the delightful Trumpington Meadows Country Park with its many carved wood animals. Familiar trails took us out to Granchester meadows and hence into turmoil that is central Cambridge.

North of the river, we eventually made it to the Milton Country Park cafe for a brief warm up and welcome coffee and cakes.

Back across the river, near the station, we encountered some art. I suspect opinions on Ariadne Wrapped will be mixed ! https://www.cb1cambridge.co.uk/art/ariadne-wrapped

The guided busway and the genome cycle path provided a traffic free route out of the city and it wasn’t long before we were back at cafe 19 for lunch. Many thanks to Charles for buying the drinks (for the record, his birthday was 3 months ago !) and Jeremy for organising. A flat ride as advertised. Riders were Jenni, Deborah, Ken, Graham, Paul, Alan, Keith, Charles, Alan, Geoff, Howard, Martin, Brian, Andrew, and a special mention for new boy: Neil.