I will however add a photo in just to prove that we did make it to john o groats :)
Lands End to John O' Groats for mental health awareness
Thursday, 27 September 2012
update
I will however add a photo in just to prove that we did make it to john o groats :)
Thursday, 9 August 2012
day 8 - ashton in makerfield to levens
Stopped in the pub above for some lunch - ended up going for the full lunch! Nice to have eaten so much before 2pm! The weather stayed fine for us - cycling into Lancaster was lovely, stopping for a break at a pub next to the canal. Then followed the canal along for a few miles! It was very relaxing - however, this feeling was not to stay with us! Arriving close to Levens we found ourselves on a very scary dual carridgeway, luckily we were only on it for a few minutes - not a mistake to be repeated!
day 7 - knockin to ashton in makerfield
day 6 - abbey dore to knockin (nr oswestry)
day 5 - abbey dore rest day
So the rest day was very welcome - I think we had breakfast at about 9am! Sitting outside with the sun shining onto the porch and then I left to cycle the short 13ish miles into Hereford, to do some washing and some tourist stuff. Richard decided to chill out at the B&B
we had a lovely stay at the Neville Arms in Abbey dore - Nick and his lovely dog jess were both very friendly and made us feel welcome!>
A big thanks to richards girlfriend Anne Marie for helping to make Richards birthday extra special
day 4 - cheddar - abbey dore
..... and what a way to spend it, hard work but fantastic.
The start of day 4 was quite difficult, but certainly woke us up, we were faced with a huge hill out of Cheddar - I think very near the famous gorge! then down the other side and over to Bristol. We stopped at a very friendly pub in long cross, Bristol. The staff were lovely and very encouraging for our trip - they agreed to put some of our posters up and promote the cause!
After leaving Bristol we headed towards the severn bridge - fanstastic. great to be cycling into wales!
One of the first things we were faced with upon entering wales, was a tunnel with a car blasting out some tunes and some children smoking something they shouldnt be! I say children because they looked so very young - but I guess they must have been 17???
So then after getting a little high cycling through the tunnel, we went on to Chepstow for some lunch! We were supposed to be meeting up with Jeff, a lovely friend of mine that I used to work with when I lived in Newport. But sadly it didn't happen due to a mishap with telephone numbers - I guess we will just have to do lejog again!!
Chepstow is lovely, very pretty little town - will upload some more photos when I have the ones from Richards phone too!
Leaving Chepstow we headed towards monmouth - very pretty countryside, although quit a few climbs for us! We were increadibly lucky with the weather, a few spots of rain whilst cycling, but nothing to worry about - then we arrived in Monmouth and stopped for some food and the rain started lashing down, by the time we had finished eating - the sun came out! YAY!
Last stop of the day, the lovely Abbey Dore - we stayed next to a nice pub, Richard had a couple of pints - it was his birthday afterall! Next day is rest day too, so why not!
day 3 - okehampton to cheddar
Okehampton - the youth hostel at Okemapton is at the top of quite a large hill, and we found it the hard way - whizzing down the hill only to realise we had to cycle back up to the top! We met up with other fellow lejoggers - tom and tom at okehampton. They are a bit more hardcore than us covering a whopping 90+ miles a day! I've still to get the photos from Richards phone, so watch this space!
Day 3 - Okehampton to Cheddar.
Leaving Okehampton in the morning after yet another mammoth sized breakfast, this was an easier day. We travelled through the rest of Devon and into Somerset, leaving the hills of Cornwall far behind. Flat countryside and very pretty villages awaited us.
We cycled through Taunton and then took the canal for a short while - quite a relief to have a slow easy cycle!
Our route is here : http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/76735258 - although my phone died perhaps about 25 miles before we reached cheddar - so we covered roughly around 85 miles that day! Good thing it was quite flat!