Sunday the 3rd Nov saw 7 bikes with 7 riders plus 1 pillion depart our Ashby de la Zouch meeting point on a dry but chilly morning. A steady two hour ride through Leicestershire, Warwickshire and into Northamptonshire was enjoyed, all be it with a few roads having ‘agricultural’ debris spread around !
On arrival at Stowe House & Gardens we parked up, meeting an 8th member plus pillion and walked in to view the ‘For Your Tomorrow” Day Day 80 memorial installation created by the Oxford based ’Standing with Giants’ team. A reflective and moving experience to see 1475 silhouettes representing the service men killed on the 6th of June during the first day of the D Day landing. There are also two special figures in red of nurses who were also killed performing their duties on an evacuation hospital ship. (Their picture was taken at the British Normandy Memorial above the landing beaches earlier this year) After a few hours at Stowe we headed away with our thoughts for the ride ’north’.
