DH roams around
A Return to Bedford: the BSCC Annual Weekend Away, Shefford, Bedfordshire - 10th May 2014
After a gap of 12 years, the Brome Swan Cycle Club returns to The Airman Hotel near Shefford, a few miles out of Bedford, for its annual away-weekend. The route is about 30 miles long and passes through Ireland, past the famous Cardington airship hangars (one of which is being deconstructed), up to Blunham for lunch, then down via the vicinity of Moggerhanger to Northill, past the Shuttleworth collection, through Old Warden and back.
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previous album: A May Miscellany, London - 8th May 2014
Harry by the van
Colin and Jill get their bikes ready
Spammy wheels her bike out
Colin and Spam
A group photo
The first of a million stops
Suey and Isobel pause for a photo in Ireland
We head off towards Old Warden
Suey on a leafy lane
A lovely bluebell wood
More bluebells
Another stop to check directions
The group disappears over the top of a massive hill
Cardington hangars in the distance
The truly massive Cardington airship hangars
One of the hangars is being deconstructed
Isobel and Harry
Another stop
Harry and Isobel
Alan cycles past
The Sagas head off
There's a spot of off-roading through the woods
Yet another stop to consult maps
Spammy looks around
A curious dovecote
Snoopy and Woodstock on a ramshackle garage door
Isobel (and a hidden Harry)
A brutalist form of bus shelter
Gabes and Isobel arrive for lunch in Blunham
Nosher and Fred
Fred's happy as there's a bouncy castle
Gaz pushes Harry around
The tandem appears
Marc and DH get the beers in
DH and Pippa
The Boy Phil considers a football
Colin, Jill and Spam
Fred's got a Fruit Shoot, as Paul looks on
Harry pokes a fruit machine
DH chats to a local
Lunch arrives
Pub stop number two, in Northill
The Boy Phil sits in the sun
Fred on a helicopter-themed climbing frame
Harry - Baby Gabey - does some climbing
Fred on a climbing frame
Suey has a go of the slide
DH at the top of the slide
Suey and Fred in the helicopter
The boys try out horses and a wagon
DH and The Boy Phil
The pub has an amazing copper bar
The earth bonding isn't even connected to anything
Phil inspects a large outdoor Connect 4
There's a village cricket match in full swing
Suey checks the directions again
The Old Warden village sign
Gaz, Apple and Pippa in a pub
Isobel with the boys
The Brewery Tap in Shefford: proper old boozer
Marc appears
The Boy Phil has swapped the paper for his phone
Classic old-school wall urinals
The gang backlit by a bright window
DH looks like a saint from a mediaeval window
The early group have abandoned their bikes
Fred runs dowen to corridor to our room
The bucolic view from the hotel window
Harry does some radiator calisthenics
Shock! Alan plays Stick Game
Alan and Spammy play stick
Fred and Harry get the beers in
Harry and his high-end fish fingers
Colin racks 'em up
Fred despairs
Fred and Harry
Harry roams around on the pool table
Jill and Colin play pool
Breakfast o'clock
Harry amongst the breakfast tables
The Sagas do breakfast
Fred racks up
Harry picks his nose and then eats it
Dressed up for evening drinks
The modern baby-sitter: a pooPad and Peter Rabbit
Multi-part windows
Alan at the bar
Peter Rabbit proves to be rather popular
Pre-dinner drinks
The BSCC do dinner
Harry looks around
Suey and Marc chat over the table
Jown Willy and Colin have a chat
The bike group do dinner
On the last morning, our breakfast table is laid out
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DH roams around
DH roams around
Harry by the van
Colin and Jill get their bikes ready
Spammy wheels her bike out
Colin and Spam
A group photo
The first of a million stops
Suey and Isobel pause for a photo in Ireland
We head off towards Old Warden
Suey on a leafy lane
A lovely bluebell wood
More bluebells
Another stop to check directions
The group disappears over the top of a massive hill
Cardington hangars in the distance
The truly massive Cardington airship hangars
One of the hangars is being deconstructed
Isobel and Harry
Another stop
Harry and Isobel
Alan cycles past
The Sagas head off
There's a spot of off-roading through the woods
Yet another stop to consult maps
Spammy looks around
A curious dovecote
Snoopy and Woodstock on a ramshackle garage door
Isobel (and a hidden Harry)
A brutalist form of bus shelter
Gabes and Isobel arrive for lunch in Blunham
Nosher and Fred
Fred's happy as there's a bouncy castle
Gaz pushes Harry around
The tandem appears
Marc and DH get the beers in
DH and Pippa
The Boy Phil considers a football
Colin, Jill and Spam
Fred's got a Fruit Shoot, as Paul looks on
Harry pokes a fruit machine
DH chats to a local
Lunch arrives
Pub stop number two, in Northill
The Boy Phil sits in the sun
Fred on a helicopter-themed climbing frame
Harry - Baby Gabey - does some climbing
Fred on a climbing frame
Suey has a go of the slide
DH at the top of the slide
Suey and Fred in the helicopter
The boys try out horses and a wagon
DH and The Boy Phil
The pub has an amazing copper bar
The earth bonding isn't even connected to anything
Phil inspects a large outdoor Connect 4
There's a village cricket match in full swing
Suey checks the directions again
The Old Warden village sign
Gaz, Apple and Pippa in a pub
Isobel with the boys
The Brewery Tap in Shefford: proper old boozer
Marc appears
The Boy Phil has swapped the paper for his phone
Classic old-school wall urinals
The gang backlit by a bright window
DH looks like a saint from a mediaeval window
The early group have abandoned their bikes
Fred runs dowen to corridor to our room
The bucolic view from the hotel window
Harry does some radiator calisthenics
Shock! Alan plays Stick Game
Alan and Spammy play stick
Fred and Harry get the beers in
Harry and his high-end fish fingers
Colin racks 'em up
Fred despairs
Fred and Harry
Harry roams around on the pool table
Jill and Colin play pool
Breakfast o'clock
Harry amongst the breakfast tables
The Sagas do breakfast
Fred racks up
Harry picks his nose and then eats it
Dressed up for evening drinks
The modern baby-sitter: a pooPad and Peter Rabbit
Multi-part windows
Alan at the bar
Peter Rabbit proves to be rather popular
Pre-dinner drinks
The BSCC do dinner
Harry looks around
Suey and Marc chat over the table
Jown Willy and Colin have a chat
The bike group do dinner
On the last morning, our breakfast table is laid out