When we lived at the shore (Stratford), we enjoyed attending many of the events in the adjacent town, Milford. Even though we are not oyster fans, we enjoyed attending the Milford Oyster Festival due to the food, arts & crafts, and exhibits. Since we experienced many fine times there in the past, we decided to attend again this year.
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| Map |
As in the past, we parked the car at Law High School and took the (school) bus shuttle to Milford center. For some reason, we always have enjoyed this rather than finding it a bother. It is a lot easier.
When we arrived, it seemed like we were the only ones holding umbrellas (rain forecast for later in the afternoon). But the sky was clear and blue and sunny and the heat was brutal.
First thing we did when we arrived was to go for the food. We each had a lobster roll and split a crab cake (sandwich).[No pictures] While the lobster roll was tasty, it was not as good as the one at Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale..
We were slightly disappointed that there was not a BMX stunt bike demonstration as previous years. I also missed the Library book sale (perhaps the weather forecast scared them). In any case, we enjoyed walking around downtown Milford, watching the fire department dunk tank, and the arts & craft and public services booths. The AHL Sound Tigers had a booth and Richard won a voucher for free tickets to the upcoming Home Opener.
As we were walking along the Green, we noticed a strange looking vehicle. Richard recognized it as a "party bike." This was a freebie (for the festival) operated by Elm City Party Bike.
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| Party Bike |
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| Richard at the front |
While we both thought it looked cool, Richard was not very interested in trying it. We walked around some more and just as we were about to leave for the bus stop, I took a few more steps and fouond that there was room for us on the 4:30 pm ride. Fortunately, Richard was game and off we went.
Wow! was it hard. My thigh muscles quickly told me they were tired and sore. However, I realized I did not have to pedal hard or fast but just do it. That made it easier. We didn't go very fast and we only went about 3/4 mile. Fortunately the terrain was flat (it is an amazing thing about biking that you notice the slightest inundations in terrain).
Remember my earlier comment about umbrellas and rain? Well during our "ride" it rained. But oddly, the downpour only occurred at the other end of the Green. We could see the line where the rain stopped and we were on the side that barely got a drop (thank God!).
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| This is what the sky looked like shortly after we got to our car. |
After leaving the Oyster Fest, we fueled up the car and then drove around our old haunts in Milford and Stratford-but that is another post (at least the beach part).
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----------------------------------Written Friday 7 September 2018.
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