title	The BSCC Annual Bike Ride, Lenham, Kent - 8th May 2004
intro	The pub cycle team decamps for its annual trip away somewhere, which this year is courtesy of Apple and Pippa who sort out a 42-mile route starting in Lenham at the Dog and Bear Hotel - complete with strangely-miserable staff - and going to Smarden, Tenterden, Sissinghurst and back to Smarden, with a return to Lenham via a staggeringly-steep hill that's around seven miles long. The weather was slightly gloomy, but at least it wasn't the torrential rain that persisted for all of the previous night and right up until breakfast. However, the scenery was impressive, the villages were picturesque and the beer was good.
dcp_9512	A Lenham butcher, off Church Square
dcp_9513	St. Mary's Church, Lenham
dcp_9516	Scene-setting around Lenham, in the churchyard
dcp_9518	A nice little row of cottages
dcp_9519	Lenham restaurants
dcp_9521	Our base - the Dog and Bear Hotel
dcp_9524	Gov and Wavy
dcp_9525	We look out over the market square
dcp_9527	We head off to the next-door Red Lion
dcp_9528	The Boy Phil scopes a menu out
dcp_9531	We play the world's most expensive Stick Game
dcp_9533	Sophie from Up North cues up
dcp_9536	Sophie and DH
dcp_9537	Wavy gets the stick in
dcp_9538	Spammy looks up
dcp_9540	Nosher in some sort of Beatles jacket
dcp_9545	Marc does a sideways v-sign
dcp_9546	Alan's got a hot chip
dcp_9552	Apple looks perpetually surprised
dcp_9553	Marc looks glum
dcp_9559	At the bar
dcp_9560	Spam and Colin share a joke
dcp_9565	The Boy Phil and Gov
dcp_9569	Nosher and The Boy Phil
dcp_9571	Next morning, we gets the bikes ready
dcp_9573	Gov's got a parrot hat on
dcp_9575	The Sagas get their bikes sorted
dcp_9577	We stop off at the Smarden Bell
dcp_9578	Bikes in the car park of the Bell, Smarden
dcp_9581	A group photo outside the pub, which is closed
dcp_9585	Picturesque houses of Smarden
dcp_9586	Looking up to the church
dcp_9589	The bikes get going again
dcp_9593	Just outside the half-way point at Tenterden
dcp_9595	The Boy Phil and Pippa in The Vine, Tenterden
dcp_9603	Jill, Spam and Alan
dcp_9607	Spammy and Alan in the Vine Inn
dcp_9610	Apple checks instructions for the next section
dcp_9616	Classic Kentish Oast Houses at Sissinghurst
dcp_9619	An old barn at Sissinghurst
dcp_9620	DH pokes about in the old barn
dcp_9622	A Kent garden in Sissinghurst
dcp_9623	A curious octagonal summer house on the river
dcp_9625	Dh checks his phone
dcp_9626	DH goes a bit off road
dcp_9629	Back at the Smarden Bell, which is now open
dcp_9633	Jill, Alan and Spam
dcp_9635	Bill gets his legs out to show off an insect bite
dcp_9636	Gov shows off a scar
dcp_9637	DH lights a fag
dcp_9638	Pippa and Apple check the property pages
dcp_9640	The Boy Phil and Bill read a "newspaper"
dcp_9642	A misty Kent view, half way up the "Hill of Death"
dcp_9648	Gov pretends to be a traffic rozzer on the M20
dcp_9649	DH ponders the insanity of modern life
dcp_9652	Jill, Colin and Pippa at dinner
dcp_9655	Marc has a nap on Bill's shoulder
dcp_9661	Carolyn and Apple
dcp_9663	Wavy does some sort of "Adam and the Ants" thing
dcp_9665	Apple's surprised again
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