Route 51 takes us nearly all the way to Cambridge, interrupted in Bicester where they felt the need for even more shops so have closed the cycle path to build over it! Electioneering posters beam with the grinning face of the Speaker John Bercow. The editorial in the local paper indicates that not everyone is happy having him as the local MP, as this means they get no other main stream candidates to vote for.
Bedford centre is a bit like Exeter, dominated by a wide river. Then the path dips into fields, around cricket pitches on village greens.
We cycle on, through the National Trust's magnificent Wimpole Estate. I'm wary of their big horned Highland cattle, lying by the path, but they and the chocolate brown lambs in the next field ignore us.
The tourist office in Cambridge provides us with a map of the sights and we set off to explore.
Miles to date 267
Location:Oxford to Cambridge
