AVP Saturday Morning Ride with Little Miss Bossy!

Being a very much last minute planned ride, only Kelly and I were free to meet up at the new Coffee Shop at Rousdon. I'd originally thought we'd have a pre cycle beverage but with the weather looking so good we just wanted to get out and on the road. May be next time I'll be better organised and suggest we meet at 09:00 for 09:30 to allow time for a pre ride coffee and natter.

My plan was to ride out to Shave Cross to check out the extent of the recently closed road on Marshwood .. well one has to have a goal. Also, being very last minute, the route was a bit fluid and while I had printed out a map and loaded up my Garmin, neither made made much sense once we were rolling - navigation has never been my strong point - watch out all for March's Sunday ride which I'm supposed to be leading, goodness knows where we'll end up!

Little Miss Bossy at the Library

As it was, we failed to get too lost. From Rousdon, we dropped down to Lyme, climbed out past the golf club to Charmouth .. then took the bridge over the A35, a much better decision than crossing further up, not just because of not having to dodge cars on the A35 but the views back to Charmouth and Lyme were spectacular. We rode on through Wooton Fitzpaine - stopping at the most unusual telephone box library - Whitchurch Canoncorum and returned to Seaton via Marshwood, Hawkchurch and Axminster.

There was a short stop in Axminster to pick up a bag of Jelly Babies and while we had also planned a stop at the Arts Cafe for coffee, were shocked to find that it closes at 12:00 noon on a Saturday! Thankfully, The Broom Wagon - a favoured establishment of mine - back in Seaton, was more than able to satisfy our need for good coffee & cake