Cycle ride to the Pheasant Inn and back via Cockermouth

A first evening cycle jaunt on arriving at the cottage for a week (Lois having cycled to the Calvert Trust for a meeting and then back to meet me at the Pheasant Inn).

Route: cycling from the cottage north on the Lorton Road to Cockermouth but turning right near Hundith Hill and keeping on minor roads above the A66 including a spurious detour at Wythop Mill north towards Eskin and back eventually descending to the Pheasant Inn to meet Lois. After a pint, foolishly joining the A66 before escaping onto the road from Embleton and thence to Cockermouth for a quick grocery shop. Then back along the Lorton road home.

Conditions: a warm summer evening.

Pub: the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite, for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold and Coniston Bluebird Bitter.