Recently, I took a different route from usual to get to the dealership from which my baby comes. This meant I wasn't aware of the roadworks and diversion that wound up taking me the very long way round (and incidentally ended up with me on my normal route anyway), but while having this runaround, I spotted a new cafe near Newlands Corner. I like Newlands corner for the view, but hate their coffee, so any new cafe in the same scenery is worth investigating. Even if there was a distinct lack of motorbikes in its parking lot.
So I returned on the first available dry weekend, and discovered, firstly, that the Squirrel Tree Cafe will never be a biker haunt because the parking is gravel. This is hard to ride on, hard to park in and even worse to try and back a heavy bike out of afterwards because there is zero traction against which to push. Add a gradient, and that will be your workout for the week.
But I wanted coffee fairly urgently, so I picked the least gravelly bit I could find and kept my fingers crossed.
The cafe is nice, don't get me wrong. The coffee is good, the snacks are better than expected. There's a lack of bathrooms, but the place over the road (the one with bad coffee) has those.
Also better parking from a two-wheeled point of view. So next time, I shall go to Newlands Corner, park on the paved side and then go get take-out coffee from over the road.
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