A last-minute offer of a bank holiday Saturday ride had five takers. Our destination was the Lazy Llama in Greenwood Park, so we set a suitably lazy pace, making our way easily along the Alban Way. We wafted up Abbotts Avenue and continued on NCN6 to Watford Road. Our leader had recently been delving into the Fabulous Trees of St Albans, oops, we mean Remarkable Trees of St Albans Revisited, an excellent book by Kate Bretherton. Hence a little loop was taken up Ragged Hall Lane then along Cuckman's Drive to find two redwoods and a cedar. The trees were planted in the 1880s.
From here we rolled down to Greenwood Park and settled in at the Lazy Llama for coffee, cake and chat. Having set the world to rights we headed for home.
It's a lovely ride through the woods, we took care on the gravelly dip, got back onto the Watford Road, then enjoyed more gravel track from the Scout Hut through to Netherway. We wiggled through to King Harry Lane and down through Verulamium Park, with riders splitting off in all directions from the cross-path. From Morrisons to our parting we had covered just over six miles.
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