River Almond scramble

Sunday’s during lockdown are turning into our family bike ride days.

My plan today was to cycle down to the River Almond at Livingston Village , follow it past the Heritage Centre, then up onto the main road for a few minutes before going onto they nature reserve which goes through Seafield to Blackburn, then back home via back roads past Five Sisters.

Once we were by the river, however, hubbie decided we should keep going. Even when the path became not do much of a path, eventually turning into not a path at all. Fine on foot, but we were on bikes! Ethan wasn’t too impressed at the bike ride turning into a bike scramble through the undergrowth and brambles on the riverbank! Husband was happy though as we hardly met another soul out there!

Finally made it to Seafield and as Ethan was rapidly loosing the will to live by then, we headed home, the opposite direction through the nature reserve to what I’d initially planned!