Day 4 of the Garden Ring cycle holiday with Ian and Steve.Route: leaving Tunbridge Wells on an initially busy road rising out of town before turning left and descending to the miniature bouldering park at High Rocks. Then on (tiring) undulating roads through Eridge Green and Rotherfield to reach Mayfield for coffee at the rather lovely Pink Cabbage Produce Co. Climbing a final series of hills to reach Heathfield and then descending to the ex-railway line which forms the Sustrans Cuckoo Trail and speeding along this to Polegate for lunch. Afterwards, crossing the Downs via Jevington to Friston, descending a windy A259 and then turning right to reach Alfriston for tea with Emma and Nathan and Alison (at Badgers Tea Room) and handing over our panniers for a lift back to Lewes. On on a mix of country roads and cycle paths by main roads to the Snowdrop Inn for a final half and then home to Steve’s house.
Conditions: starting cloudy but becoming sunnier in the afternoon.
Pubs: the Dinkum, Polegate for Harveys Sussex Best Bitter, Olympia and Copperwheat. The Snowdrop, Cliffe for 360 degree Brewing APA and Downland Brewery Cloud Physics.
