Easiest day to date, short/flat/tailwind. One scary roundabout coming into Worcester, a few light sprinkles of rain and a short delay getting the keycode but still in digs before the rain came.

Lovely (relatively) big apartment occupying half the first floor of a genuine oldy-worldy Tudor era Inn (400+ years old) only 300m from Worcester cathedral (980 years old). Bad King John of Robin Hood fame is buried here at his own request.

Impressed by scale of warehousing & canals in Gloucester. I looked up Google to find that between 1700 and 1800 the canals and later railways dropped the cost of freight per ton.mile to 1/20 of pre-canal costs and sped freight speeds 10 times. Organising the first fixed regular contract deliveries (to pubs) increased hours per day of wagon use giving more efficiency. Very interesting how unseen changes drive economic development.