No rain :( but biking in the sunshine :)
How unusual, a bank holiday weekend in North Wales without rain - how did that happen? Because we took our boats. Yep, weather witch strikes again - metcheck had predicted loads of rain for N.Wales for Thursday, which then changed to Friday, neither of which materialised.
As we were dusting the cobwebs off the creek boats and loading them onto the car roof, and later when we were driving 2o mins back to Reading to pick up our forgotten paddles - I figured it would probably rain just enough to get us wet, cold and muddy whilst biking, but not enough for us to go boating. We were therefore pleasantly surprised to find blue skies and warm weather for the full 4 days of the bank holiday (though we weren't at all surprised that there wasn't enough rain to go boating!) which allowed for some great biking, with 16 of our Reading friends, across the Welsh countryside.
Welsh lamb, cute, but...mmmmmm.....mint sauce
We met up with Bledd and Lynsey, who as always had far too much energy. They took us on one of their local rides - which thankfully involved hardly any uphill! My kind of ride :)
Some Welsh ruins (behind me!) - almost as common as caravans on the A5 to Betws-y-coed on a bank-holiday weekend.
I was almost sacrificed to the gods when we arrived at Llandegla to a slight blip in the weather - it always snows when I go to Llandegla. Thankfully it was just really cold and cloudy with no snow (though the rest of Wales was still under blue skies and sunshin!), so I was spared the sacrifical offering.
Back up to N.Wales this w/e for team training at the Tryweryn and Youth Freestyle on the Dee, and then working for a whole week (thats quite unusual at the moment!) which will guarantee Hurley to be open!
As we were dusting the cobwebs off the creek boats and loading them onto the car roof, and later when we were driving 2o mins back to Reading to pick up our forgotten paddles - I figured it would probably rain just enough to get us wet, cold and muddy whilst biking, but not enough for us to go boating. We were therefore pleasantly surprised to find blue skies and warm weather for the full 4 days of the bank holiday (though we weren't at all surprised that there wasn't enough rain to go boating!) which allowed for some great biking, with 16 of our Reading friends, across the Welsh countryside.
Welsh lamb, cute, but...mmmmmm.....mint sauce
We met up with Bledd and Lynsey, who as always had far too much energy. They took us on one of their local rides - which thankfully involved hardly any uphill! My kind of ride :)
Some Welsh ruins (behind me!) - almost as common as caravans on the A5 to Betws-y-coed on a bank-holiday weekend.
I was almost sacrificed to the gods when we arrived at Llandegla to a slight blip in the weather - it always snows when I go to Llandegla. Thankfully it was just really cold and cloudy with no snow (though the rest of Wales was still under blue skies and sunshin!), so I was spared the sacrifical offering.
Back up to N.Wales this w/e for team training at the Tryweryn and Youth Freestyle on the Dee, and then working for a whole week (thats quite unusual at the moment!) which will guarantee Hurley to be open!
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