We spent our last night of the trip in a B & B called Bluebird Lodge Guest House with the luxury of a comfortable double bed - although any bed seemed comfy after a day on the Lakeland Loop; and walked into town for much needed food and beer at the Black Bull Inn. It could have been sad to think we only had one day left of biking and a mere 12 miles at that but I preferred to dwell on the fact that I had almost completed a journey that I wasn't sure I could do five days earlier. What satisfaction!
Looking back that last day was gone in a blink of an eye and yet I know we skirted Coniston Water by road before forcing tired legs up one more climb through forest to Hawkshead Moor and the manufactured pleasure of Griezdale Forest's North Face Trail. Why we were whooping round a mountain biking trail centre on the final day of such an epic trip was incomprehensible but that's the nature of the addiction. I think it follows the 'it was there so we did it' logic.
Finally we left the trails behind and descended through Devils Gallop on the final stretch. We paused to treat ourselves to tea and scones before those last few tarmac miles round Windermere and timed our arrival to perfection just catching the ferry which deposited back at Bowness fifteen minutes later. Amazingly our car was exactly as we had left it abandoned on the road side six days earlier or was that a life time ago ...
Looking back that last day was gone in a blink of an eye and yet I know we skirted Coniston Water by road before forcing tired legs up one more climb through forest to Hawkshead Moor and the manufactured pleasure of Griezdale Forest's North Face Trail. Why we were whooping round a mountain biking trail centre on the final day of such an epic trip was incomprehensible but that's the nature of the addiction. I think it follows the 'it was there so we did it' logic.
Finally we left the trails behind and descended through Devils Gallop on the final stretch. We paused to treat ourselves to tea and scones before those last few tarmac miles round Windermere and timed our arrival to perfection just catching the ferry which deposited back at Bowness fifteen minutes later. Amazingly our car was exactly as we had left it abandoned on the road side six days earlier or was that a life time ago ...
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