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Stop press! Warb DID NOT fall off today, unbelievable Geoff!
Anyway the day started in Shrewsbury with a bike clean and lube.
It was then on the road, the ride didn't start well, Garmin was being a right d*** again, we've named our sat nav, original we know, it's made by Garmin. Anyway he took us on a 3 mile mystery tour of Shrewsbury before we even found our route, exactly what needed on an already 100 mile day. p****
The morning was fairy uneventful, it was heads down and crack on as we had to cover 60 miles before lunch in order to make the ferry over the Mersey at Birkenhead. Unfortunately despite a Sky Team like effort we didn't quite make the 2.40 ferry, so had to wait around for the 3.40.
We filled the time with a quick cafe lunch stop, Joe's menu choices again proved excellent, I copied him and ordered what turned out to be a monster chicken club!
A quick boat trip across the river and we were in Liverpool and welcomed by Pie and Lyns. Pie was meant to be doing the full ride with us but due to his semi-pro egg chasing responsibilities had to drop out. Therefore he decided to joint us for the afternoon leg of day 5 to Preston!
The afternoon was again quite uneventful, lots of A roads which don't make for many interesting stories, it's single file, fast traffic all the way!
Pie's presence was good though and gave us a bit of a lift!
We arrived in Preston about 8pm and after putting the ridiculously heavy wheely bins out for the guest house owner and a quick freshen up we headed into town for Spoons Curry night!
Warb, Lyns and I hit up the curry with all the extras while Titters, Pie and Joe ordered two meals each (it's so cheap in there!) desert followed along with odd looks from the waitress who clearly thought we all had eating problems.
Back at the hotel me and Warb watched a bit of Keith Lemon (Oohhsss!) while drinking Horlicks, rock and role.
So, bike clean, 100 mile cycle, boat trip and a curry, fairly productive day by my standards.
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