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Sat May 13th 2023
| New Forest Weekend day 1 | 3* |
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Leader:Jo Little |
Start Time:9:00 am |
Start Location:Lyndhurst |
Description:A repeat of a succesful weekend away last year - let's hope the weather is a bit drier than it was on the Sunday!This is day 1 of a two day visit to the New Forest. We are making it a weekend away and are staying in Lyndhurst from Friday to Sunday. We usually all meet up Friday evening for a meal at La Pergola, which is close to the ride starting point. It would be possible, however, to travel down early on Saturday and just treat it as a day ride. The ride starts in Lyndhurst and visits Lepe and Beaulieau then skirts past Brockenhurst and along the ornamental drives then loops back round past Cadnum to Lyndhurst. The ride covers a good variety of the beautiful New Forest countryside. Please note the New Forest is not flat! Although there are no really steep hills, there will be continuous climbing throughout the day. We will have a cafe stop in Beaulieu at The Old Bakehouse Tea Rooms and then a lunch stop at The Royal Oak in Fritham. We can then all meet up for an evening meal in Lyndhurst at La Pergola, an Italian restaurant near the starting place, which we will book beforehand. The starting place for both days is the Bolton's Bench car park on the B3056 Lyndhurst to Beaulieu road. When approaching from Lyndhurst village (on the A35 Southampton Road) the B3056 is on the right hand side, opposite the fire station. The car park is immediately on the left. La Pergola is on the A35 just a bit further on, on the left hand side. It has a large car park. Lyndhurst has several small hotels, including the Ormonde House Hotel and The Penny Farthing. There are also some B&B's. We have booked The Ormonde House Hotel for when we stay in May, and can highly recommend it as they are very friendly and helpful, but the area is popular so it would be best to book quickly. We are limiting both days to 12 riders, as any more is too much on these roads and will split into 2 groups for ease of riding. Please contact Jo if you would like to put your name down. I will set up a Whatsapp group to help co-ordinate everything nearer the time. I have contact details for nearly everyone but please could you ensure you have downloaded Whatsapp onto your phone. |
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Riders:Barry StantonEddie Little Jo Little John Tranter Joy Arthur LeeAnn Norris Nicole Pethybridge Paul Smith Peter Brodie Richard Pethybridge Sharon Bedford Riders = 11 Weather:  Report:The weekend started for some of us on Friday evening, meeting up at La Pergola, an excellent Italian restaurant. Delicious food and enormous portions hopefully setting us up for the next day.Saturday started off a bit cloudy but the sun soon burnt through and it turned into a wonderful sunny and warm day. We split into two groups but were able to keep close together for much of the time. Thanks to Eddie for leading the second group. We followed the same route as last year, enjoying the mix of the sea, the forest and the heathland; with a cafe stop in Beaulieu and then a lunch stop at Fritham. There were plenty of ponies, foals, donkeys, goats, sheep and pigs to enjoy on the way round. The scenery as always was great and everyone enjoyed the day's ride. We finished back at Lyndhurst with an icecream and then met up later for another great Italian meal. Thank you to everyone for being such a great group to ride with and a special thanks to Joy, Peter and Richard who helped Ed and I by taking the lead into a tough headwind. It was also good to meet Barry's friend Paul who came to cycle with us and Lee Ann's husband, Mike, who enjoyed some off roading over the weekend. | ||
Distance:100.58 km (62.50 mi) | ||
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| Proposed Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38322517" | ||
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