It was a lovely sunny day and we set off bright and early to try and visit all the 37 churches in our local deanery. The countryside we pedalled through was beautiful and varied, and so were the churches we visited. There were some real gems and most of them were open for me to look round. My next picture shows me outside the church at Hempstead, which really took my fancy with its delightful thatched chancel.
As we had so many churches to potentially visit, we hardy stopped pedalling throughout the day. We did stop for a few brief minutes outside Cley church to eat a roll and for me to remind myself of my planned route and to count up the churches already visited and signed off on my sponsor form.
When we got to Blakeney and called in at the Methodist church, we were shown their new cafe in the church hall. I was delighted to find 3 friendly bears helping to run the cafe, and they were doing a great job. Sadly we didn't have time on that occasion to sample their fare, but I plan to go back when I have more time.
By 5.00 p.m. when the ride finished, both minders and myself were quite weary, but we'd had a great day. When we consulted the GPS I was amazed to discover that we'd all pedalled 64 miles each and visited 42 Norfolk churches. I thought that was a superb achievement and I'm very grateful to all of our readers who sponsored us.
Lots of love, Gio xxx
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Midlands' Branch tried several times to congratulate you on your achievement, but failed to prove we were not robots. I wonder if we shall manage it this week?
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