Would you believe it!

Remember the curry pubs at the Queens Head and The Grand Junctuion - well Simon Sturt now has a place called The Hawthorns in Glastonbury and we happened to come into it by chance. Just waiting for dinner - it all looks great!

Hello to Myles

I suppose it's as wet in Shepton Mallet as it is here. Hope you are having a good time.

Bradford on Avon

More boules

George in action.

Sherston boules competition

Amanda in action at the massive boules competition in Sherston.

At Amanda's. Went to dog training class.

At Amanda's. Went to dog training class. Picture is Arthur mastering 'sit'!

Stats for yesterday

Stats for Marton to Cheltenham:

53.98 miles
9.5 mph
7080 climb
7880 total

Route was:

A423 then minor road toward Offchurch, B4455, cross M40 then minor road to Ashorne. B4087 and B4086 to Stratford. Then B4632 to Cheltenham (very good road for cycling).

Sherston

Arrived at Amanda's house in Sherston.

Woodchester

Peggy's parents owned and ran this building as a hotel in the 1930's. It had one of the first outdoor heated swimming pools in the west country.

Just leaving Painswick

On our way again after a visiting Peggy.

No movement yet

Not going too far today so we can afford a slow start. we are going for lunch in Painswick with Peggy and then staying the night with Sal's sister Amanda in Sherston (near Tetbury).

Cheltenham

Arrived at the camp site on the west side of Cheltenham at about 6pm. Currently seated in a pub with a pint, looking at the menu. Bring on the carb!

Winchcombe

Tea time!

JOGLE Support Team hard at work

Note the dog in a pram behind Andy. An i

Note the dog in a pram behind Andy. An interesting lunch.

Broadway

Just arrived in Broadway for lunch. Very smooth rolling cycling from
Stratford, skirting the cotswolds.

Just setting off

Probably the strangest camp site so far - though very clean. This is a picture of the combined shower and washing up block.

Marton

Finished for the day. Another 70 miles. Probably met the worst drivers of the whole trip today. Anyhow, thanks for the suggestion for a cafe Roger but we're ready for a beer and curry at the local pub.

Tea time

Somewhere south west of Leicester

Kirby Muxloe

Visiting the house where Sal's family lived until she was 3.

Loughborough

We're flying along today and our reward is lunch at Costas in Loughborough - the high life!

Nottingham

Nice run into Nottingham - time for coffee and a re-enactment of
Saturday Night and Sunday morning. Fortunately I can't remember the
Dankworth theme tune.

Off we go again!

Preparations

We have had a sort out, and managed to ditch a staggering 2.8 kg of kit! I really thought we had only bought essentials with us. We have been looking at the weather forecast for the next 10 days, and may seriously reconsider the camping for the last week if the weather doesn't improve- the thought of pushing the full camping gear up all those hills in Devon if we are not able to camp.....

Stats for today

O miles
O mph
O m climb
Total: same as yesterday

Rose and Crown

Also - I just want to say how delighted I am that the Rose and Crown will be opening soon. We can't wait to get back and have our first pints.

Rest Day

We're having a day off today and getting our washing sorted out and the bikes cleaned up. Here is a picture of us arriving at Mum's house yesterday at around 6:10pm. We were quite damp.

Stats for today

74.70 miles
10.6 mph
662 total
2290 m climb
7 hours and 1 minute

Route was:

York
Cawood
Selby
Thorn
Bawtry
Retford
Ollerton
Wellow
Eakring
Kirklington
Edingley
Farnsfield

Retford

Very good bike shop!!!!!

Bawtry

Juist waiting for lunch. We've had very heavy rain and thunder on the way here and had to shelter in bus stops and under trees while the worst passed over. Anyhow, that's 45 miles done - so only another 30 to go!

Thorne

Bad cramp in left leg - ouch!

Selby

Coffee time

Caywood

Just got to Caywood - here is a pciture of us with Adri.

St Paul's Square

Spent a lovely evening at the St Paul's Square garden party and BBQ. They even had live music. We are staying with Adri, who was a very dear friend of Sal's mum. This is a photo of Sally and Adri in the garden in the centre of the square.

Stats for today

42 miles
9.4 mph
4302 climb
586 total

Route was Northallerton, Thirsk, Easingwold, Stillington, York.

Timothy Taylor

Carlone take note - here is a pint and a half of Timothy Taylor. Yummy.

York Minster

Strange case of cramp for last 6 miles, but here we are.

Correction

We are in Easingwold - not Easington!

Easington

Lunch time

The Ritz cinema, Thirsk

Roger - check this out!

Thirsk

Coffee break in Thirsk. Gordon and Ann passed us by twice on our way here in their convertable.

On our way to York

Just left Brompton and heading to York. This is a picture of Sally with Gordon, Ann and Reuben. Thanks very much for letting us stay and I'm sorry I ate all your food - it was very tasty.

Tent drying at

Tent drying at Brompton.