2 of the 3 Amigos

Today just 2 of the 3 Amigos went for a cycle around the Henley area.
Sally and I met at Lower Assendon and took a steady climb up to Russells Water, where we stumbled across a little house with a beautiful stained glass window of a humming bird, we knocked on the door to ask if we could take a picture, hoping she would invite us in but she didn't so we had to take the picture from outside, I'm not sure it looks so impressive in the photo.




A little way on we stopped at the village pond to take a picture of a herd of male ducks with just two females for company, poor girls were being quite heavily fought over.

We then made our way up to Christmas common where we tried to call in to see Sally's Sister in law but unfortunately she wasn't at home, so we carried on past a very impressive free range egg farm with these lovely moveable hen houses.







Then on towards Turville Valley, down a very steep very long hill, this is quite worrying as we hadn't gone up hill anywhere near as far as we were going down, so that can only mean one thing, we have to go up again before we get home.
Turville valley is where the "Vicar of Dibley" is filmed, so here is a picture of the Vicars House.





We stopped for lunch at the very excellent' Bull and Butcher" also featured sometimes in the programme. As we started to eat our best lunch so far during training, it started to rain, but we were under an umbrella and didn't mind. The rain became much heavier as we left the pub to head back, but it is spring and the ride was beautiful so we didn't mind.



Another climb up to Fawley where we stopped at this lovely church whose name I failed to find out, it was quite interesting though as there were 2 huge Mausoleums in its grounds, I have also failed to get the information about these but perhaps if you have good eyes you can read the plaque on the last photo.













Then back, down hill almost all the way to Lower Assendon, and when we got back we both said we could happily continue for much longer, Im not sure if that's because we dawdled, if we are getting fitter or if the ride was just an easy one, but we enjoyed it and thats the main thing at this stage.