Our morning started early, before 7:00am, with making our own breakfast consisting of muesli, eggs, bacon, tomato, roll and tea. We then loaded our bikes and set of under overcast skies not on the planned route for fear of climbing back up to the Tissington Trail to Ashburne. We went through the village of old stone houses heading south west on the B5054 and then B5053 to Froghall some of the climbs were too steep to cycle and there were many opportunity to stagger up steep hill pushing our heavily loaded bikes.
We had morning coffee and scones with fresh cream at the Frognal steam railway cafe and watched the steam train a very 30’s setting including the music and a steam train shunting carriages. We headed on the A521 Cheadle to Blythe Bridge, B5029 and the A520 to Stone where we had lunch at restaurant La Dolce Vita, good food for lunch time special fish cake starter, lasagna, apple and rhubarb with good custard followed by expresso. The restaurant was situated next to the canal drop lock we watched the long barge move through the lock taking some picture before getting on our bikes with full stomachs it wasn’t long before we were climbing again but at least the gradients were manageable.
We continued on the A520 to Weston, B5026 to Eccleshall, A59/B3062 to Newport we made very good time moving a some spend on not gently rolling hills and only 13 miles from Telford we stopped at Newport in an old fashioned traditional tea house , we were both not very hungry after the generous lunch that we asked for one portion of coffee cake to share, the waiter took must have took pity thinking that we must be trying to save money and gave us a big slice each for the priceof one.
We set off again on the A518 into Telford and my GPS took us to the B&B in Wellington next toTelford where we settled in before going for dinner at one of the best Indian meal I have had in a long time washed down with 3 pints of Cobra in bed by 9:00pm.
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