Meet at Thame with the Snowdens

It's Saturday morning and Sally and I met David and Ann Snowden in the cattle market car park in Thame.
David and Ann had chosen the route.
We started by going through Long Crendon and Chilton then a long drag up hill to Brill.






We stopped half way to photograph the view, and then carried on up to the windmill.




















So here's David posing in front of the windmill.









After that we went through Borstall and past this Llama farm, I think it was in Horton-cum-Studley.












After that through Worminghall and Ickford where we passed this pony out for his daily excercise.



It remained fairly flat or at worst undulating as we passed under the M40 and turned right to Great Haseley where we stopped to read the map.
I must say there are some really beautiful villages around Oxfordshire and we have certainly seen lots of them during training, it makes me glad to live in England.
Here's a lovely cottage in Little Haseley.









Now we travelled for a while until Sally and I started complaining that we had not yet stopped at a pub, and we were just not used to traveling so far without a pub, so we persuaded David and Ann that although we had a packed lunch we should still use the facilities of the next pub and buy a beer while we were there.




Ann and David are clearly experienced picnickers as they produced these marvelous self inflating cushions to sit on while we ate our sandwiches outside the Lamb at Chalgrove, watched over by this donkey and his friend.



Now quite a long stretch up hill through Stoke Talmage, and towards Postcombe, where I spotted what looked like an ancient stone monument across this field just in front of the tree, but you can barely see it as all the pictures are taken with my phone, sometimes on the move, so the quality can be poor.





Back under the motorway now down a lovely long hill, across the a40 and through Postcombe to Sydenham, another lovely old village, and another lovely old cottage.
Sally looks a bit pooped here.






Finally a rather hellish 4 miles slightly up hill along a very busy road, into a headwind back to Thame.
We measured this at 39 miles, and afterwards Sally and I visited an old friend of mine in Chinnor who had baked a cake just for us and it was very welcome I must say.
Next ride for the 3 Amigos is Tuesday, its Tim's turn to choose the ride and bake the cake, no doubt Tesco will bake the cake.