Best Few Days

Jo and I have had the best couple of days this last week; relaxing (for the most part) and different.

Tuesday night – after two long-ish days for us both, we headed up to the bottom end of the Lake District for a two days & nights of clean-air, walking and hiking. We lodged in the Mill Force Farm, a very peaceful B&B on Tuesday and rode some of the North Face mountain bike trail around Grizedale Forest on Wednesday & Thursday (big thanks to the lads at Grizedale Mountainbikes for all their help). Despite it being Jo's first time on single-track (think: a bike trail that looks like an off-road walking track), she handled the trail, weather and her husband’s high-maintenance bike like a pro. See her thoughts here.

After work on Friday Jo drove us from Manchester down to our good mate Tim’s place in south London – braving the worst traffic I’ve seen for a while (I spent the 6 hours on my laptop doing work :-( ).

Despite missing out on tickets to a matinee of Othello at The Globe, Saturday still ended up sunny and super-fun with a lovely bottle of white at Borough Markets and an hour or so watching the London Prologue of Le Tour de France. Crazy stuff. I’m told they averaged ~56kph over the day’s stage. There was some serious money and sponsorship there – with around £25k of ‘reserve bikes’ on the top of each rider’s support van.

Tim introduced us to his local curry house: Cinnamon - the best Indian curry I’ve had in England, which we ate as once again Jo tried (unsuccessfully) to watch the original StarWars movie (Esp 4). Funny times.

At Tim’s suggestion we headed off to the London Zoo today – which Jo will no doubt tell you all about. Afterwards Jo and I Tube’d back to Waterloo to grab her bag before she caught a train back up to Manchester.

I’m now finishing off fish-n-chips in one of Jo & my favourite restaurants, the Young Vic, The Cut, Waterloo and am about to drive up to Watford for work tomorrow.

Good photos; great times!