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Yesterday, my girlfriend got the day off, and she suggested going to Brighton on her new road bike, last year she use her 7 speed dutch bike all the way (even up Ditchling Beacon), so it's no surprised she's a little excited about doing it again on a "proper" bike.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/london-lewes-brighton
This time we turn off to Lewes to visit her friend whom own a cafe and her aunt whom was visiting from Barcelona (Le Magasin) and then to Brighton via the awful A-road.
Also she'll be navigating instead as I always feel like a cunt doing the work giving the impression that a girl simply cannot navigated and need me to do it, so I gave her my Garmin, and simply follow her instead.
Woke up at 7:30, have a bit of breakfast (californian sourdough bread with jam and peanut butter), then head out at 8:45.
Just one slight issue - she can't find her asthma inhaler, which was a major problem combined with hayfever allergy, so we have to be more cautious and prepared for certain hill that'll be a problem.
We were aiming for the cafe at 1:30. and already I was worried that we might be a bit late due to the lack of inhaler, however despite having to stop several time to allow her to recover, we managed very good time and got to Turner Hill around 11:15.
Later on it got pretty hot, we saw a field of horses lying down completely, I've never seen horses lying down like that before so it was a bit of a shock thinking they're dead, until one of them snorted rather loudly, sadly no photos as we were too busy laughing at the horse.
Only having an apple, we set off again toward Lewes, we followed the same route as the London Ditchling Devils as it's my favourite route to Brighton with lots of great quiet road, short climb and long descent, something that she prefer.
It gotten a little harder as we aimed to get to Lewes for lunch, so we end up going a bit slower than we normally do, instead of turning right to Ditchling, we turn left to Lewes, 30 minutes later, we arrived in good time despite the lack of inhaler, only 15 minutes late through the lovely settlement of Lewes.
Have an awesome lunch, I have smoked salmon fish cake with poached egg and she have pasta, they're expensive but defintely worth it, in the end we were giving an assortment of pudding that her friend chosen, we scoffed them all and barely able to move.
Despite having additional weight on our bicycles, we head off to Brighton via the A-road and visit her aunt (different one) who live there, an hour later and many honking from impatient fuckwit, a nice glass of lemonade and cup of teas at their house before taking the train home.
Lovely day out, despite I looking exactly how rare she want her steak to be, it took her half the time to get to Brighton than the last time, sans inhaler!
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