Mysterious bicycle tours through the night
Sep. 11th, 2004 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhialtoA friend of mine (Y.) invited me to come along to the performance of some band somewhere. The mentioned where but it meant nothing to me. It was about an hour's cycling.
Just as we set off, dark clouds appeared in the sky, and there was lightning. Soon, some big raindrops started to fall. So we put on our rain coats (mine was not very good actually) and continued, since it was still quite warm (over 20 degrees C). And the rain seemed to stop again as we went on.
Only when we were nearly there, it started again. By now it was quite dark. The streets of the countryside were not well lit. Our own bikes didn't have any lights, like most other bikes as used in the city. Fortunately our eyes got used to the little light there was.
We entered wat turned out to be a chaotic camping that had lots of trees and shrubs. In the dark it was almost impossible to make out the roads, and it was dark almost everywhere around. We tried to find the location of this band, but at first only found a bus where people were watching some film. Then some time later we found the actual announcement for the band, and it turned out that Y. had been misinformed, and the band would be there next week!
Since by now we were getting quite wet, we joined the group in the bus and watched Pirates of the Caribbean. By the end of it, the rain had stopped and we could return home, again trough the dark, over the same unlit roads. It was still quite warm, fortunately, so the jacket I was wearing, and was soaked, could get fairly dry.
I'd like to have described this adventure in the dark a bit more but my shoulder aches; I must have pulled a shoulder/neck muscle yesterday and it is still hurting, and quite annoying; last night it interfered with my sleep and probably will do so again tonight :-(
Just as we set off, dark clouds appeared in the sky, and there was lightning. Soon, some big raindrops started to fall. So we put on our rain coats (mine was not very good actually) and continued, since it was still quite warm (over 20 degrees C). And the rain seemed to stop again as we went on.
Only when we were nearly there, it started again. By now it was quite dark. The streets of the countryside were not well lit. Our own bikes didn't have any lights, like most other bikes as used in the city. Fortunately our eyes got used to the little light there was.
We entered wat turned out to be a chaotic camping that had lots of trees and shrubs. In the dark it was almost impossible to make out the roads, and it was dark almost everywhere around. We tried to find the location of this band, but at first only found a bus where people were watching some film. Then some time later we found the actual announcement for the band, and it turned out that Y. had been misinformed, and the band would be there next week!
Since by now we were getting quite wet, we joined the group in the bus and watched Pirates of the Caribbean. By the end of it, the rain had stopped and we could return home, again trough the dark, over the same unlit roads. It was still quite warm, fortunately, so the jacket I was wearing, and was soaked, could get fairly dry.
I'd like to have described this adventure in the dark a bit more but my shoulder aches; I must have pulled a shoulder/neck muscle yesterday and it is still hurting, and quite annoying; last night it interfered with my sleep and probably will do so again tonight :-(
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Date: 2004-09-11 01:38 am (UTC)I studied in a town in the Midlands where there were cycle paths the whole way through campus and back to where I was living. I used to love putting my horn on my back after orchestra and cycling for 30 mins or so back home... I was always sad to arrive.
And hooray for warm rain. I enjoyed that when I was in Thailand. Sadly, Newcastle rain cannot be described as warm....