A drive back to Cockerham today with cycling buddy Lyndsey for a flat ride to Little Eccleston. This part of Route 90 is the flattest (and most uninteresting) as the black soil of the reclaimed moss lands stretches for miles with the Bowland fells only just visible on the skyline. We paid our 10p to cross the River Wyre at Cartford Bridge and cycled into the car park of The Cartford Hotel for lunch. Finding it closed on Mondays, we decided to cycle the uphill mile to Great Eccleston where we discovered one pub closed and one pub not serving lunch! There was no alternative but to have a glass of wine, fish and chips (good quality and extremely popular) and another glass of wine before getting back on our bicycles and freewheeling back to the toll bridge. Not wanting to retrace our tracks completely, we decided to cycle on the towpath of the Lancashire Canal (have since found out that cycling is prohibited on the canal path south of Lancaster!). The path was mostly grass and extremely hard work so we were glad to rejoin the road just south of Cockerham. Another couple of miles and we arrived back at the car - 22.89 miles today.
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