A lovely sunny morming saw Jason, Anne-Marie and I off on another training ride. Joined by Simon the four of us met up at 7:30 with the intention of exploring West Wiltshire for a 50 mile ride.
We headed out of Salisbury along the Wylye valley following the route we will take on our first day
(11th July).
Once Church Bottom was behind us we had lovely, quiet flat roads. Quiet that is until with much squaking and flapping we saw two Buzzards. One flew away as we approached, the other however was trapped on a barbed wire fence by it's wing and no amount of flapping would allow it to free itself.
Straight away Anne-Marie with the assistance of Jason took control.
Its big talons and beak were held still and it's wing unhooked. It flew off with no obvious problems and the other buzzard flew in and off they went. They are really majestic birds and I didn't appreciate the size until up close.
You would assume that with such a good deed Anne-Marie's karma would be set fair but 25 miles in at Warminster she had a puncture. Its not our first and won't be our last but surely given her Animal Rescue act it shouldn't have happened today.
All sorted it was time to head back, it is always a bit demoralising coming back the way you came so off we headed to the Deveralls because we had a vague notion that that way would lead home.
After some missteps, the A303 is a very busy road and should be avoided by cyclists, with the use of Google maps we came back to Salisbury via Wilton.
57.5 miles done on a very plesant Saturday morning.
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