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Sunday 26 June 2016
10:15 - 14:40
Morning ride: Dartington
Cloudy but dry
15 miles (▲ 385m ▼ 385m)
5 Participants: Lawrence Buttress, Dillan Edwards, Michael Jones, George Rogers, John Rogers
The plan was to ride to Cranks cafe at Dartington via Pennywell Farm for a change, which turned out to be a very good idea. We rode up Pennywell Hill, past the sawmill and down the other side to the Week road, which everyone enjoyed. This brought us out near Cranks, but Michael had planned a small detour through Dartington before our refreshment stop, and Dillan helped encourage everyone to do that.

We rode up Staple Hill, which took us past the Mud house we had seen being built many years - still standing, to our surprise. After riding through the delightful centre of Dartington that we rarely see, with its thatched cottages, we joined the main road via Vineyard Hill, then joined the cycle path at Dartington Lane and rode back to Cranks from there. Michael could probably have persuaded them to detour further to Dartington Hall and the cafe there, but they were happy with Cranks.

We had a good meal in Cranks, with everyone surprised at how tasty everything was. Dillan had jacket potato with beans and cheese, adding a full salad for just £1 extra, making £6.50 or so. Michael had homity pie with salad which was great, George had jacket potato but did not claim his £1 salad, so Michael went back later with £1 from Lawrence to get his salad and Lawrence really liked it a lot. John had the minted pea soup which was apparently really tasty too, so everyone was happy.

From there we rode to Staverton Play Park where we had fun on the equipment and played Frisbee at George's request. We then rode straight home for 2.40, concluding an excellent ride.
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