Summer Holiday

The emphasis being on day. This year I couldn;t get any leave, so my family went to Ostend without me, and I stayed at home and went to work. I couldn;t get leave for the usual reasons; management were trying to organise a piss up in a brewery, so couldn;t do anything else as they were too busy. they all got their leave of course, but put a blockade on anyone else trying to get time off, because Hull Coty have ben promoted, and they can't decide if we are having traffic department or not, and because grass is green or some other flimsy excuse. The upshot being it is now September and I have about 3 weeks worth of leae to take, but no chance of taking it.

Anyhow, I digress. Because the purpose of this post is to say that despite all the odds I did manage a day with my children before they went back to school.

I was very proud of them both. They only learned to ride bikes last summer, and are still learning road sense and how to react to traffic etc. Yes I am old fashioned enough to make them ride on ROADS. Under supervision of course, but on your actual ROADS, not pavements. Cycle tracks are good, of course, and we have lots of old railway and bridleways to explore, but many miles of straight and safe country lanes too, as well as the vilage to practice on.

Hence we set off,with picnic lunch from our house, down the old disused railway line to the bridleway and out towards Halsham, the on into Halsham Village, on roads into Halsham proper, then out towards Winestead, back towards Ottringham and back down the old railway line (much overgrown and nettle infested - OUCH!) back towards Keyingham. The odometer on my cycle computer read 12 miles total - not bad for an 8 year old, a 5 year old and a man in his forties.

Thomas and Emma relax for a break at the Constable Mausoleum, Halsham.

The round journey took us about 3 hours including a break for lunch.

I do a truncated version of the same route as part of my keep fit regime, 6 1/2 miles in around 30 minutes (best of 27 mins 49 seconds to beat)

I'm thinking maybe I shoudl plan a few routes around the area and write a guide book? Holderness is great for cycling, lots of off road options and it's all fairly flat so good for beginners.