Our third trip away in Bertie, we also now have the use of a ‘driveaway’ awning we promised ourselves from the last trip.  On Sunday we stop over in Aust again on the way to Devon to see Rich, Nic and the grandchildren – Russ has also made it down from London for the weekend.  It just happens to be the World Cup final weekend (15 July), so we enjoy the unusually hot weather and have a BBQ in the garden.  Also we take a look at Rich’s new bar in one of the stables taking shape – we watch the final in there on a big screen projected on…

Only our second trip away with Bertie now, we choose this site because it is close to Southwold (about 5 miles) and we would like to go and visit there and surrounding areas like Dunwich on the bikes.  I decided to take the hybrid, maybe there was some ‘off-road’ that I couldn’t manage on the road bikes. The Haw Wood Farm site was spotless, huge big showers and friendly staff took care of us. We had booked a distillery tour at Adnams, something inside under cover in case the weather wasn’t too good! By dumb luck, the OVO women’s tour finishes in Southwold on the same day as our tour,…

Six of the Peddlers go to Peterborough show ground this year for the closed roads event, the UK qualifier for the UCI World final in Italy this year (Varese). Ev went out of the race gates (age group 55-59), hoping to qualify – he’s put a lot of effort in beforehand and he’s booked accommodation already in Varese just like I did for Albi last year.  The rest of us went out of the sportive gate. Fabulous weather today, in fact it got a bit too hot and many struggled with dehydration in the last 10-15 miles putting a big effort in and not stopping for water. After a nervous…