Newbury, Berkshire to Barfett Street, Greater London (via Middlesex and Surrey - Staines)
59.19 miles (620.19 miles cumulatively)
A funny thing happened today (no not the rain[s] in staines, or the lack of a bridge on part of the tow path) but the discovery of a new, and I am quite sure, society changing theory. Brace yourselves...the centre of the universe is not actually the sun, but Maidenhead!
Hey, I hear you call, you can’t go claiming radical things such as that! That’s simply not cricket. Well, ordinarily I would agree, but today I have proof (sort of) and here it is. Every road ever designed, no matter where it is in the country (as long as it is in the Reading vicinity) either leads to Maidenhead, or is called Maidenhead Rd.
I know, you may not think this is strange or, as I said earlier, society-changing, but when you have been on your bike for 4 hrs and every sign you come to directs you to Maidenhead, you do feel that you are in a vortex of ever changing theories and mine is this one: Maidenhead is the centre of the Universe!
Challenge me all you like, but you know I’m right!
I have also discovered (it was a voyage of discovery for me today!) that it always does in fact rain in staines. I came through there in a training ride on my way back home about 1 month ago and it was cold, windy and wet. Very, very wet!
Today, after having had a really nice ride, weather-wise throughout Berkshire and into Windsor, as soon as I hit Staines, it clouded over and became, yes, you guessed it, cold, windy and wet, very very wet!
Who would have thought - 1 day and 2 denouements! Can you have 2 denouements? I just have - perhaps that’s three! What a day it’s been!
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