Pedalling for Palestine
05/06/2024 Day 3: Holbeach to Bedford
102.2 km, 716 m climbing, 5 hours 52 minutes, 17.4 kph
[The height profile is at the bottom of the map.]
Setting off from Anne and Bob's
My anti-close pass message for literate motorists
Pedalling off from Anne and Bob's, with potato field stretching away on my right
Lincolnshire is Very Flat.
As above, with selfie:-)
Early lunch stop; I was feeling a bit miserable - weather a bit windy & chilly. Stopped at a pub with fish & chip caravan at the back. This was a real boost!
I had arranged to meet Linda at 5, actually arrived at 20 past, so not bad! Afternoon had brightened up, like my mood!
The nice receptionist took this picture of Peter, me & Linda
Thai curry for dinner!
Transcript of my Instagram reel for this day
It's day three of my pedalling for Palestine, riding from Leeds to Brighton over five days. So today it was Holbeach to Bedford, and you can see that I'm in a rather nice hotel room here in Bedford. The weather was a bit grey at first, windy, I don't like headwinds, and it was a headwind for at least the first couple of hours, maybe more, but I stopped at a lovely pub just outside Peterborough, at the Marigold arms, I think it's called. Certainly Marigold is in there and [it] had the best fish and ships I've had for ages, and that was most welcome. That bucked me up considerably. I also managed to solve when I arrived there, the problem that I turned my phone somehow so that the brightness was about zero and I couldn't see anything on the screen! And you just get the feeling that sometimes there might be something on a navigation map that you might want to see and not just listen to the nice lady talking. But I was able to sort that, no problem. So then, I noticed I bucked up a bit after lunch, pedaling a bit faster, had a couple of stops for gels. And at the top of one hill, about 20 miles from Bedford, another cyclist stopped and we had a chat and he said, yeah, Palestine terrible, and he gave me a donation, so I must put that on. And led me down the best hill. I got, I think 58 kilometers an hour down that hill! And then he went off to his home and I pedalled on to here. What was especially nice was being met by Linda and Peter Mesney. We'd texted so that we arrived here [at the same time]. More or less, I think they'd been waiting a little while, but not too long. So that was really great to be welcomed in. So now my bike's, not exactly tucked up in bed, but it's put, somewhere out of the way, nice and safe. And I'm here. There's a restaurant downstairs, there's a shower awaiting me there, and so I shall be relaxing, getting ready for tomorrow. Aches and pains, I've had a bit of tingling in my hand from time to time, pins and needles, my bottom is complaining, it doesn't like having a saddle, it much prefers a recumbent seat. But a road bike is quicker than a tricycle recumbent and much more nimble shall we say. So my bottom will just have to put up with it. Other than that all good. Slight twinge from my left Achilles tendon but you know I'm very old so you expect these things. Right take care! Bye for now.