After the mini-Bongoliers have taken part in our local annual Beltane Festival we like to head out of town for a bit of peace. A daytrip in the Bongo to the mountainbiking trails at Ae seemed ideal and this proved to be the case. Ae is in Dumfriesshire and is widely regarded as having the shortest place-name in the UK (though I can think of at least one other 2 letter name (Oa in Islay springs to mind)). Maybe the other two letter names refer to areas or geological features and Ae is the only one that refers to a settlement. No picture of the bongo at Ae but it served it's purpose as mountain bike hauler and mobile changing room. Bit midgy in the evening.
Soon after leaving the car park we were joined by this fit but elderly retriever who kept up with us for about 5km until the music playing at a nearby campsite and the smell of barbecue enticed him away. He seemed more at home in the forest than we were.
