Ride report

There was plenty of conversation at the start – unusually we congregated right in the middle of Broad St. We headed south through Kennington and entered Abingdon via the Sustrans route for a change. A flat (mostly) route saw us arrive for coffee at Root 1. The short stretch of old road through the trees that avoids a short stretch of the A 4130 was much improved, with the accumulated debris having been cleared back to make a wider path. Quiet roads got us to the Chilterns. Although there was some autumn colour, a lot of the trees were still mostly green. When I was young, at Bonfire night all the leaves were already on the ground. Evidence of a changing climate, I guess. We had lunch outside at the Black Horse in Checkendon, not super warm but there was some sun. Who would have thought back in 2019 that 2 years later we would have been having our November lunch outside. A route through Ewelme, Chislehampton and Garsington saw us back to Oxford.