Sunday, 01 February 2009
There were four of us at Brookside at 9.30am: Averil, Tom, Jerry and Nigel. The appointed leader Mike K was indisposed so Nigel led the ride south to Saffron Walden, talking a more or less direct route via the Shelfords, Whittlesford, Duxford, Ickleton and over Coploe Hill to Catmere End. The weather forecast had promised clouds and a freezing wind, but in fact it turned out to be neither especially cold nor especially windy, and we enjoyed sunshine for most of the morning. From Catmere End we took the narrow "transmitter road" over the hill from Littlebury Green down to Wendens Ambo. A few miles later we arrived in Saffron Walden where we stopped for coffee at the Temeraire. Mick and Adrian were there already.