Having got the bug for researching family history, today I decided that I'd go and have a mooch around the spot where one branch of the clan flourished for a couple of centuries.
Now the biggest problem of living in the South West is that almost every round trip means heading into the sun on the way out and again on the way back.
Of course this time of year when the sun is low for most of the day and the roads are a bit iffy, it's one of the joys of winter riding.
I do like the Wessex countryside on a clear bright winter day. IMO it can be compared to just about anywhere.
Little pubs, in tiny hamlets. According to the 1901 Census some of my relatives lived next-door (I didn't go in just in case there was an unpaid bar bill!)
On the way back, just before Chicklade, the sun was so low I was riding with one hand as a sun-shade even with a strip over the top of my visor.
Just after this I ran into a Pea-souper at Mere, just what you need when your visor is coated in crap!
The bike's showing the effects of the road-crap after about 200 of the 280 miles today.
Oh well, at least I know how I'll be spending tomorrow!
Now the biggest problem of living in the South West is that almost every round trip means heading into the sun on the way out and again on the way back.
Of course this time of year when the sun is low for most of the day and the roads are a bit iffy, it's one of the joys of winter riding.
I do like the Wessex countryside on a clear bright winter day. IMO it can be compared to just about anywhere.
Little pubs, in tiny hamlets. According to the 1901 Census some of my relatives lived next-door (I didn't go in just in case there was an unpaid bar bill!)
On the way back, just before Chicklade, the sun was so low I was riding with one hand as a sun-shade even with a strip over the top of my visor.
Just after this I ran into a Pea-souper at Mere, just what you need when your visor is coated in crap!
The bike's showing the effects of the road-crap after about 200 of the 280 miles today.
Oh well, at least I know how I'll be spending tomorrow!
