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Andy and Arthur cycled from Oxenholme over Catlow Fell, lunch in Kirkby Lonsdale.
Hark to Bounty for a meal in the evening.
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Headed over the hill to Wigglesworth, Sunday drivers seem faster these days.
Glad to get off B road to café in Hellifield .
Nice quiet roads through Appletreewick and up Greenhow Hill to Stump Cross Caverns for tea break at about four thirty.
Fast run down to Pateley ridge for shopping then up Nidderdale to Lofthouse for Air bnb.
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Back down to Pateley Bridge and across 'undulating' terrain to Harrogate for lunch. Very busy in town today. After this roads were pretty quiet, we stopped in a lovely place called Hampsthwaite where we bought chilled water. Weather very hot today so as we started crossing the Vale of York we stopped at Tockwith for an ice cream. Not long after we arrived in York. Haggis for dinner.
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We used NCN66 to get out of York and stopped at Stamford Bridge for first lunch. Incredibly busy here with permanent traffic jam in town. Headed north through rolling fields of wheat to Malton for second lunch in a café, glad to get out of the sun. After this it was an easy ride over the fields to Helmsley but the heat coming up from the road was incredible, good to get indoors.
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A short day today so started with sight seeing at Helmsley Castle then Rievaulx Abbey.
After this we went north west through North York Moors up and down steep hills, plenty of climbing.
Sadly the café was shut at Hawnby so we just carried on up and down the hills, some very steep.
Arrived in Osmotherley where all the pubs were open, phew.
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Scorching hot today even when we left. We headed over to Kirkby Fleetham and stopped at a pub for tea and iced drinks, we needed to keep taking in fluid constantly. Next we went to Catterick, got there about twelve thirty but the café was already shut. Luckily we managed to buy food in the coop and sit under the trees for a picnic. The next section up through Hipswell shouldn't be too hard but with the temperature up to 32C by now we had to keep stopping when we found shade. It's a steady climb then suddenly you're at the top, a quick whizz downhill and we're in Swaledale and an ice cream shop in Reeth, cafés still shut for some reason. When the ice cream shop closed we headed down to Grinton and The Bridge Inn for a quick pint before heading up to the hostel.