Firstly, while out in a big forest, miles from anywhere, we came to a junction on the cycle path, and from the other direction a pair of Segways appeared around a corner. I didn’t manage to get a camera to bear on them before they did a smart 180 and scuttled off back the way they came. Sadly we were going in a different direction as I’d love to know how they cope with the terrain.
Possibly on the same ride, certainly in the same kind of forest environment, we came up behind a group of retired Dutch people out for a recreational ride in the woods. The track was quite narrow so we elected to follow on as they weren’t going much slower that our normal mid-ride speed. After about a mile we came around a corner to find the trail blocked by four large shaggy-coated reddy-brown coloured cows, at least one of which had yery large buffalo style horns, like this:
They were about fifty yards ahead of us. We looked at them. They looked at us. Nobody moved, not least because we were at the back of the queue and the Tandem isn’t easy to turn around on a narrow forest path in a hurry, so we were stuck and we were blocking the escape for the others if it turned nasty. (I was going to put "if the lead cow turned out to be a bit 'tasty' in the Sweeney sense of the word," but then thought about the cow's future and felt it possibly in poor taste.) Next the guy in front’s dog (in an open box on the back of his bike)...
...caught sight of the cows and started barking (not baking as I found that I had typed originally when I re-read it, that would have made for a far better story.) One of the women then dismounted and approached the cows, who decided that they had no answer for whatever she was offering, and ambled off into the forest, allowing us all to continue on our merry way.
No comments:
Post a Comment