LEJOG Day 10
It took me a while to leave the camping ground. My tent dismantling and packing skills are a bit rusty. The lady in the office told me of good place for breakfast less than a mile away. The place if called Hollies attached to a farm shop. It serves a really good breakfast. By the time I got there people were also arriving for lunch. It is very popular it the Yummy Mummy set -similar to the place in RTW that it posted about. However, this lot have very different accents.
The Garmin took me a series of very picturesque lanes to outskirts of Warrington. I noticed the roads had some familiar names if you follow Rugby League – Warrington itself, St Helens, Widnes etc. This part of Lancashire and Yorkshire is where League is played in the UK. It was that case that players from this area move to Australia to play in the Sydney competition. Now a lot of Australian players move to the North of England towards the end of their career. A pet loving Canberra Raider decided to make the move mid-career.
Warrington is not the most bike friendly place on the planet.
I continued north into Chorley. I ask a couple that were walking down the road about a place to stay. They told me that there aren’t many place to stay in Chorley and “would not recommend any”.
I finally found a place on the northern side of the town. The accommodation was in an annexe to a pub. I assume that the pub would be showing the Wallabies v Lions game the next day (Saturday). A very ordinary curry was washed down with a couple of pints of John Smiths.
This being Day 10 of the ride, it occurred to me that some E to E – LEJOG riders are in John OGroats by now.
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