Barfett Street, Greater London to Cheshunt, Hertfordshire (Via Waltham Abbey, Essex)
23.56 miles (643.75 miles cumulatively)
Now I knew full well that today was not going to be the longest or the hardest of days on the bike and it certainly (very happily) lived up to that billing. I packed my A-Z in my bag and set off in search of happiness (or Essex, whichever you choose).
As I was cycling along, being very careful to unclip my cleats for most of the route (and bugger me, whilst I’m on the subject of cycling in London, did I possess a pair of rose-tinted glasses through which I looked at riding my bike in London prior to this trip! It’s bloody horrible - a hateful place to cycle compared to many other places in England). I realised that for a bank holiday there was mightily bad traffic around North London. I was crawling (not literally, that would have been wierd) past car after car with their drivers looking generally bored with life whilst sitting in their comfy seats. I snaked my way in between them (as no driver in London it seems allows room for cyclists to pass when they [the drivers] are stuck in a queue) and after what seemed like a lifetime (witty pun coming up) I came to the reason for the blockages. There were, and I joke not here, 5 different Good Friday marches, each carrying a different cross at the front, going on within 4 miles of each other. Do you see the joke - Lifetime, Good Friday, rising from the dead... It might take a while but I’m quite please with that one!
Anyway, far be it for me to get into a religious-themed discussion here, but 5 in 4 miles? Why not have 1 with more people and, therefore, fewer traffic jams and thus, fewer angry people behind the wheel, which means in turn, fewer people driving erratically and (can you see where this is going) therefore, not quite so many accidents on the roads when people are trying to get wherever they might be going for the Easter weekend.
I think Cycle England has just solved another one of life’s little quandaries!
P.S. Please don’t take this as a Religious slur - I’m thinking purely logistically!!
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