Day 13 Hatfield to Easingwold

Slept like a log though did put earplugs in as M18 noise very noticeable. We get up before 7 and are leaving the site at 8.15.

Breakfast is 3 Weetabix, yoghurt and a banana  and tea. Kyle asked if we were doing the ride for a charity and let us stay free. We are donating the fee to the cause. Thank you Kyle. We post the key for the shower block through the letterbox and off we go. 

Today's run is very flat, route 62 through Selby to York on good cycleways, then 65 to Easingwold. We pick our way along some backroads and get onto the Trans Pennine Trail north of Hatfield. Taking a break on a railway bridge Julian checks his tyres out and i dpot a sign alongside the railwY line. Only. 200 miles to Edinburgh! 

We are soon in wide open farmland, very flat and the only high points on the horizon are 2 power stations, Drax being the eastern one. 

There are huge fields of barley, wheat and oilseed rape. The TPT goes along a canal where I see an old lifting bridge near Sykehouse.Then for a couple miles its back onto quiet roads and a bridleway which opens out to a huge field. I stop to check the route and see what looks like a smalll parachute landing not 100m away. Its a drogue for the end of a glider tow line. We are just south of Selby on an old airfield. As we follow the route i spot the glider coming in to land. We watch it take off again. No thermals today so its only a short flight. 

York has great cycleways and we go to a cycle shop Julian knows, then a cafe round the corner where Gail, a colleague of his pops in to see us. A Thank You is required here for a donation to the Just Giving site from a member of the cafe staff . After lunch we pop in to Gail's office next door and news is exchanged. 

Going north from York its route 65 now and we spin along. We soon come past the north end of Lynton on Ouse Airfield and i hear some aircraft close by. Next second 3 light aircraft fly low overhead in formation and do a bump and run. They loop round and land giving us a ringside view. 

Arriving in Easingwold we ask for directions to the shop - its a good size co-op. We load up with b 'fast essentials and head to yhe campsite ln the east side of town. Wrong, no site here since 2003 apparrently, so its off to the other one. Fine here so its the usual routine to set camp and get food. 

The George Hotel is super , roast beef and yorkshire pud hits the spot. 

Back to site and I don't need any rockin '. Too tired to blog. Another 60 mile day and a day in hand now over the plan.