Wednesday 27 September. Tinos, Ride to the North Coast.

Today was a nominal rest day without any moving on so I planned a ride over the 1000ft central Ridge, down the other side to a North Coast beach and then back over the Mountain to Tinos Town. Everybody, somewhat surprisingly went along with the idea except Ernie and Nicola who decided to have a rest and do some snorkelling.

Weather was very good with clear blue skies and temperatures up to 27C.

We rode up via many hairpin bends and past the great rocky crag of Exobourgo which we scaled earlier in the week. Then a fast steep downhill to the North Coast and the beautiful sandy bays at Kolymbithra. We stopped for elevenses at the beach Taverna and then down to the near empty sandy Cove for several swims and a picnic lunch.

We rode about 200 yards back to the Taverna for a Tea and Ice Cream stop (well up on Wednesday riders standards)

Then back up the hill to 1000ft and a fast downhill back to Tinos Town.

22 miles for the day and 2165ft of climbing .

Edwin