East Coast Way Bike-Ride

Well I wanted to back to ECP for the Bike-Ride journey, previously only doing the walking variety due to the bad weather that encroached when I previously went there a few months back.

So I went with a colleague from work, and we met-up at McDonald’s there, a great meeting spot – also served as a good sport to get some grub in as I was waiting 🙂  Hehe!

We then hired the bikes – S$7 for an hour / per bike, with a BOGOF offer (which seemed to be common amongst all of the bike hires).  So it short it was really S$7 for 2 hours, I prefer they just say this – but that’s the beauty of marketing for ya…

We set off eastward, as the views were much more appealing, arriving at the East Coast Lagoon Food Village just by the Ski 360 Degree water-sport lake.  We stopped off at the Food Village for a liquid break (Tiger Beer), well we relaxed and enjoyed the views passing by.

We then continued eastward until we arrived Castle Beach feature, which I previously viewed.  This time there was more sand castled being made and completed – and one of the chaps gave an outline of why this area was set-up – mainly to get families working together – without the need of any form of experience etc.  Some of the sandcastles was nicely put together.  The chap (what I can probably call a sandcastle expert) explained that the one he was putting the finishing touches on, took about 40 minutes to complete – hehe!  Now that’s quick!

We tried to head off again, but my mate had a puncture, so we had to abrutly stop our trail, and circled back westward, and eventually returned to the cycle hire shop.  Luckily we did as the 2 hour mark was actually hit when we arrived back – wow that was quick!

A thoroughly enjoyable bike ride, and I must admit my cycling is improving.  The last time I cycled was in Amsterdam in June 2010 – that’s how long ago that was.  Haha, but sort that out pronto when I get back to the UK 🙂