Route: from the cottage, taking the normal direct cycle route to Cockermouth and then exiting up the gentle hill past the hospital and then school, gaining altitude and then descending to Embleton and along the road parallel to the A66 to the Pheasant Inn for beer and crisps in the garden. Back via the two steep hills to and out of Wythop Mill.
Conditions: hot and sunny on one of the warmest days of the year.
Pub: the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite, for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold and Coniston Bluebird.
