Greetings from Welsh Wales. I have just done a 30 mile loop starting and finishing in Cardiff. Tonight has not been without incident; the Reader's Digest version ...
I managed to exit Cardiff along the Taff Trail past the Millennium Stadium then suffered my first navigational embarrassment of the evening and found myself going back into the city centre. A U-turn solved the problem. Much spooky, dark and empty lanes ensued, I were scared. I was even more scared when navigational embarrassment number two saw me doing a mile on a muddy farm track across some fields. Then hills. Then, thank goodness, the Captain’s Wife (a pub, stop sniggering at the back) in Sully. Two pinks of The Rev James, prawn cocktail and hunter’s chicken – yummy. Then back into the night. Found the bridge over the river by Cardiff Marina, the white water canoeing thing looked like fun. Then navigational challenge number three. Went round a massive roundabout twice only to find my exit coned off. Ignored cones, cycled along deserted dual carriage way (cos of the cones, see?), into a big tunnel, waved at the chaps fixing the lights in the ceiling (that’s why the road was coned off) then back to the hotel – phew!
Fully functioning brakes were a big improvement on this time last week.
