Luton loop

A repeat of the round Luton 60 but this time with a detour into Dunstable for a morning cuppa with Sue who was working today. This helped to increase the mileage to over 70 for the first time, but the real test will be doing another long ride tomorrow. It's an enjoyable circuit, mostly quiet lanes or B roads and Bedfordshire countryside looking very green after recent sun and rain. The climbing was almost identical to the top of Snowdon from sea level. Came close to colliding with a muntjac deer that I startled right next to the road. Later saw two low-flying F15 jets apparently travelling from RAF Lakenheath at about 2000' to a flypast in Surrey - certainly made a lot of noise. And it didn't rain until I reached home just after three. 

Ruined church at Ayot St Lawrence, near George Bernard Shaw's birthplace

Palladian church at Ayot St Lawrence

Pitstop at the Bright Star, Peters Green 

Some may recognise Woodcock Hill and the mast at PSDB, later HOSDB, now CAST
 and soon to merge with the defence equivalent