Newhaven-Dieppe and ride to St Quentin [and back?]

[jsabine]

Aye, good ride both ways - down with marcusjb, Swiss Hat, jzhowie, Pichy et al, then back with tomsk, Laid Back Rich, Phil W, the bhoot tandem, Pete Mas and others.

Set off from Newhaven with revellinho, but by the time we'd got to Uckfield my legs were rebelling so picked up a train to East Croydon, then a slow meander home.

[Revellinho]

You were wise.  The hills thereafter were cruel to tired legs.  It was the hilliest section of the entire expedition according to my device.

[Laid Back Rich]

I really enjoyed an excellent fairly quick ride back from Newhaven to Raynes Park with Malcolm Dancy the physics teacher who it turns out is also an author and offered to proof-read my forthcoming book, great result 

We found an excellent bakery in Ardingley which opened up 15 minutes early just for us and was staffed by the most gorgeous homely wifely nubile baker I ever set eyes on 

Then tradition beckoned and we found ourselves fetched up at the the Raynes Park Wetherspoon by 9:40 for breakfast and a cheeky pint