Sometimes it’s not about the riding.  Sometimes the bike is just there to give you something to do while you’re talking, and to get you to where you can do that talking over coffee.  It’s a vehicle for a different kind of therapy – mental instead of physical – but as equally therapeutic.  Sometimes it’s about the company not the bike.  Welcome to today.  There had been plans, but those plans changed.  Which was good because, as you may have gathered from yesterday’s entry, I wasn’t massively feeling like hills.  Instead George and I went to Burnham on Sea and back, with a break in the middle for the aforementioned caffeinated substance.  As Bella will attest, and which the photographic evidence will bear out…

T’was chillier than yesterday, and a whole less sunny, but pleasant enough in a different way.  For all that George may not be riding so much at the moment, you’d never guess, since it sure hasn’t slowed her down any!  Quite a challenge keeping up and conversing at the same time…but it’s probably good to stretch yourself a little, and I held my own :).

The Bay View Café was, for once, devoid of cyclists.  Actually we were the only customers there the entire time.  The only other coffee stopping cyclists we saw were at a café down the road.  I wonder why?  Maybe the coffee is better?  This is one of the few remaining places that automatically serve coffee white unless you ask otherwise…just as well George didn’t mind taking mine while they made me a black one – waste not etc.  But I don’t like white coffee at the best of times, let alone when I’m lactose intolerant, so it wasn’t worth just letting it go as I might have done in the past.  To be honest the black stuff wasn’t all that either.  Having said that they have moved up the rankings with the addition of a small range of gluten free biscuits to their offering and, since I wasn’t sure when/if lunch would be, chocolate chip cookies seemed like a good idea.  Fuel for the even chillier return journey.  That’s as good an excuse as any, right? ;).

Cycling time: 1:35:57 hrs
Distance: 26.48 miles
Avs: 16.6 mph.
ODO: 15655.78 miles