DAY 2 - 25/06/09
Distance: 83.2 miles
Cycling Time: 7hrs 52min
Average Speed: 10.5 mph
We spent our first night at Restormel Farm near Lostwithiel, it’s part of the Duchy of Cornwall’s Estate. The building next door is Restormal Manor it’s just been restored by the Duchy as luxury holiday accommodation. Princes William and Harry where the first guests last weekend and Charles and Camilla are coming next week – we felt very much at home!!!
Meanwhile back on the road the easterly wind was still howling straight at us, the hills where also steeper and longer than the day before. Again up, down, up, down…… no flat bits.
Outside Liskeard we asked for directions from a postman, he appeared to greet us with a ‘Heil Hitler salute’. It turned out however, that he was just describing the gradient of the next hill we had to climb.
We moved on from Liskeard to Tavistock and then we turned north to Okehampton. We picked up the Granite Way, Sustrans route, this was very pleasant and relatively flat and quite sheltered. At Okehampton one of Geoff’s spokes broke, luckily we found a bike shop in Crediton where they were very helpful and fixed it, plus sold Geoff some luxury biking shorts (Geoff was in some discomfort having become an early run-away leader in the sorest backside competition).
Calorie Burner Counter – Day 2 (to date)
Phil says that we shouldn’t count the calories consumed on the way down to Lands End, so 7 pints of beer, 2 bottles of wine and 2 pork pies have been deducted from the running total.
Pints of Beer = 14
Bottles of Wine = 2
Pies = 3
Distance: 83.2 miles
Cycling Time: 7hrs 52min
Average Speed: 10.5 mph
We spent our first night at Restormel Farm near Lostwithiel, it’s part of the Duchy of Cornwall’s Estate. The building next door is Restormal Manor it’s just been restored by the Duchy as luxury holiday accommodation. Princes William and Harry where the first guests last weekend and Charles and Camilla are coming next week – we felt very much at home!!!
Meanwhile back on the road the easterly wind was still howling straight at us, the hills where also steeper and longer than the day before. Again up, down, up, down…… no flat bits.
Outside Liskeard we asked for directions from a postman, he appeared to greet us with a ‘Heil Hitler salute’. It turned out however, that he was just describing the gradient of the next hill we had to climb.
We moved on from Liskeard to Tavistock and then we turned north to Okehampton. We picked up the Granite Way, Sustrans route, this was very pleasant and relatively flat and quite sheltered. At Okehampton one of Geoff’s spokes broke, luckily we found a bike shop in Crediton where they were very helpful and fixed it, plus sold Geoff some luxury biking shorts (Geoff was in some discomfort having become an early run-away leader in the sorest backside competition).
Calorie Burner Counter – Day 2 (to date)
Phil says that we shouldn’t count the calories consumed on the way down to Lands End, so 7 pints of beer, 2 bottles of wine and 2 pork pies have been deducted from the running total.
Pints of Beer = 14
Bottles of Wine = 2
Pies = 3
Do the luxury shorts come with 'keep arse soft and rash free luxury liner'?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry lads, they wil look after you in Gloucestershire, but watch out for the strength of the beer and the sheep wandering the roads.
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