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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Riding out to my friend's house on Monday evening, I started off on the Foss Islands Cycle Route, which runs past a travellers' estate (or whatever you call it where they park up and live in permanent houses). It's not the nicest route in York, but actually better than it used to be, less glass and stuff..
Anyway, coming round a bend with walls each side, not too fast, I see a chain lying across the path, and as I approach, slowing, it moves. So I'm all set to just stop, and turn round, expecting a couple of kids messing about, perhaps attempting to have cyclists off or something.
When I get up to it, I see that one end of the chain is tethered one side of the path, and the other end is fixed to the halter of the tiniest Shetland pony I've ever seen, grazing on the other side. And that she has a foal next to her, even tinier!
So I wished them both good day so as not to spook them, and rode over the chain...
Anyway, coming round a bend with walls each side, not too fast, I see a chain lying across the path, and as I approach, slowing, it moves. So I'm all set to just stop, and turn round, expecting a couple of kids messing about, perhaps attempting to have cyclists off or something.
When I get up to it, I see that one end of the chain is tethered one side of the path, and the other end is fixed to the halter of the tiniest Shetland pony I've ever seen, grazing on the other side. And that she has a foal next to her, even tinier!
So I wished them both good day so as not to spook them, and rode over the chain...