Tandem to Edinburgh

We've had a great day toiling through the hills and moors of the south Pennines. After yesterday's posh cafe lunch we stopped today in Penistone for chips (wrapped in the local newspaper) and sarnies, which we ate on a bench in the sunshine chatting to a local. His conversation was peppered with allusions to socialism and trades unions and he told tales of the Clarion Cycling Club - one of the earliest organisations concerned with enabling working class people to access the countryside on their doorstep (by bike, of course) and discuss the need for political emancipation.

The weather has been glorious again and there have been lots of sweeping downhills at 30 mph followed by a long trudge up the other side pushing a large purple bicycle!

Now in Thorner, east of Leeds, and heading to Richmond tomorrow.

Today's key stats:
Distance = 53 miles
Vmin = 2.4 mph (for large chunks of the day) walking up 1 in 5 hills.