Day 2 Slaidburn to York

After overnight rain we were pleased to see it dry as we set off for Wigglesworth with the intention of heading over to Grassington for lunch. Our eventual destination was York and there are several routes possible but only one takes us over the 1200ft contour so obviously that's the one we were heading for. Grassington boasted lots of tea rooms but they were all packed out and very expensive. The car drivers were out in droves now that the sun had come out to play so we sat in the centre of the village and ate our lunch. Just as we were about to set off up Greenhow Hill it got very dark and the rain started. This made slogging up the steep incline much less of a pleasure than I had anticipated. The rain stopped as we reached the summit and we took the right turn at Greenhow and headed down to Knaresborough. Now I had estimated that today's ride would be 60m but by this time the troops were getting restless, York still seemed a long way off and we were all quite tired. I cheered them up with 'It's only another twenty one miles' but this was met with dark looks and sullen behaviour. Bert in particular had had enough and by the time we crossed the A1(M) he was saying things like 'Go on without me' and 'Save yourselves', all quite tragic really. I'm not sure if what happened next counts as drug abuse but I thought 'He needs something' so out came the marzipan. After a good munch of that he was saying 'don't let me hold you up' as he whizzed down the A59 at 20mph with the rest of us struggling to keep up. The sugar buzz wore off just as we reached the Youth Hostel and things calmed down to normality.