The Worcester apartment was great, even from my bed on the couch. Really nice to be in the olde part of town with real Tudor buildings mixed with everything to now.
But all good things end.
The ride from there …
LEJOG DAY 10 HARESFIELD NR. GLOUSCESTER TO WORCESTER 66.64 km, 352 m
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 …
LEJOG DAY 9 BRISTOL TO HARESFIELD (near Gloucester), 69.15 km, 487 m
Nice early finish today. In at the Beacon and Railway Inn below the Haresfield Beacon (look up Spanish Armada) and the railway at the bottom of the beer garden and carpark. Not a bad place. Early Victorian I would say. …
LEJOG DAY 8 REST DAY BRISTOL
Talk about relaxed! Took till after midday and rising hunger and caffeine deficiency to get us out of the house.
We eventually caught an Uber to Brunei’s suspension bridge followed by a walk to the ‘floating dock’ (dock basin isolated …
LEJOG DAY 7 Bridgwater to Glastonbury to Bristol 109.5 km, 1127 m!
That was a Biggie! Longest, highest day yet, only one significant hill up to Mendip Hills but it was 400 m finishing in 250 m at >1:10. Heroes all! Especially the one who had been a bit under the weather …
LEJOG DAY 6 North Molton to too Bridgwater 84 km, 1366 m.
Warning to those visiting Bridgwater: Close it and lock it! Advice from. guesthouse manager in Bridgwater. Also, don’t approach the Hinckley Point nuclear power station or the commandos from the nearby RAF base won’t bother landing their helicopter, they will …
LEJOG DAY 5 Westward Ho! To North Molton 53 km, 637 m climbing.
LEJOG 5 Westward Ho! To North Molton 53 km, 637 m.
A bit anxious about the big hill after Barnstaple but before then there was a real problem; the ferry from Appledore across the estuary didn’t start running until 4:15 …
LEJOG DAY 4 Bocastle to Westward Ho! (That is a real place in Devon) 80 km,900 m climbing
Did I mention that today started with 400m of flat along the Valency River from the Boscastle YHA past a few pubs? Then went up at (felt like) 10% for a kilometre before slackening to about 7% for a couple …
LEJOG DAY 3 New Quay to Boscastle, 67 km, 922 m climbing
Everyone got up which is a plus. John led us off with elan, straight down an unmade footpath so steep the brakes were hardly holding the machine. And the the long push out the other side.
We were in Horse …
LEJOG DAY 2 St Ives to Newquay, 66 km, 971 m climbing
Great relief to see the bikes still there after spending Saturday night in the side street. After fairly relaxed breakfast of muesli we load the bikes and headed up. Everything in Cornwall begins by going ‘up’.
Google had assured us …