Met up with Neil at my local petrol station, and Clive at Pease Pottage services, then after a quick chat headed off to Reigate Hill to meet up with Darren. It was starting to rain, and as I had a puncture the previous evening and had changed to my wheels fitted with knobblies, I had to be a bit carefull. Darren had turned up without waterproofs, so he was expected to contract "Trench Nadger", a bit like trench-foot but in a worse place.
We then headed North to the airship hangers at Cardington for a look
Next, we then went to the Nene Valley Railway that was closed, but they let us look around anyway
Then, after a break at Stibbington diner, we headed off to Lincoln to our hotel. On the way there, I could hear a noise coming from Clives bike, it sounded like someone breaking paving slabs. We found a bike shop near the hotel (Webbs of Lincoln), the mechanic came out to look at Clives bike, said it needed a new chain, that they didn't have in stock, but then told Clive he would get one that evening, so Clive left his bike there for the night. We were soon at the hotel, and after a very nice meal and some beer, went for a walk to find a pub that Neil reccomended.
Next morning, after a bacon roll for us , and some chain lube for the bikes, I took Clive off to pick up his bike, then went for a ride through Lincoln
Then off to see the bubblecar museum, which was interesting
Then next on the agenda was Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, which is always good.
Then, after the museum, we took a pleasant ride to Barton-upon Humber to have a look at the bridge, then back to the hotel for the evening.
Next morning, we headed South, and stopped at the Chatham historical dockyard, and had a good look around
One of the cranes that used to unload my truck when I worked for BOC!
Then home, 571 miles later. Very enjoyable trip with great company
