Norfolk, Yorkshire and Lake District bike ride

    Due to me not checking my diary properly, I managed to book myself two trips at once, I booked a Longbow making course for a Thursday and Friday, and a bike trip Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

   I went off to Thetford for the longbow course with overnight camping, the day was very interesting, the tent set up was very difficult as it had been very hot for a few days, and the ground was like concrete

The next morning, I had completed my bow, and it was arrow making time, I started on the arrows, but as I have already made loads in the past, I decided to finish early and head off to Yorkshire to meet Neil and Clive, we met at South Yorkshire3 aircraft Museum, which was interesting, then headed to our hotel for the night, then next morning we went to Pickering station which is a steam railway, so Neil could get his steam train fix

Next, we went to Thornton le Dale where Bangers and Cash is filmed

We rode through some very nice scenery on the back roads

we found a large rock that Neil had a go at eroding, without much success!

Eventually, we came to our hotel for the night, The Lounge, Penrith. 

We were a bit disturbed as there was a hen party there, and it got very loud when we were having dinner, so we went outside to the patio area, and they followed us, then asked for a group photo, then Neil asked if we could have a photo with them...

The next morning, we went for a ride through the Lake district,

  and I wanted to do the Hardknot Pass and the Wrynose pass, which I was expecting to be tricky, as the bike was loaded up with all my camping gear and cooking gear

 

The Pass was harder than expected, the hairpin bends were almost full lock on the motorbike, and you had to lean the wrong way, as the bends are also on a 30% slope and very uneven, no wonder so many people drop their bikes on this road, and as soon as you have done one very tight turn, there is another one a very short distance away, its worth checking out other peoples video's on youtube. I then headed off to the Lakeland Motor Museum, which has a lot of Donald Campbell cars and boats, very interesting. 

   Our hotel for the night was Travelodge Kendal, which was fine, then next morning we set off for home, Excellent fun trip, thanks chaps, and I now have a new bow!