Category: 2024 LEJOG: Lands End to John O’Groats

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Finally the appointed hour has arrived! And we make the Grand Depart! But not before one of us headed back to London for some R&R before aiming to rejoin us in Bristol.

After a light breakfast of bacon, egg, toast, …

The alarm was set for six as I was to be on the 8:03 am from Paddington Station to Penzance. J&C were on the 12pm (they booked almost the day bookings opened about 9 weeks before the trip). I booked …

The BIG REVEAL —- Christine has busted open the wallet and bought a custom built Condor Touring Bike (arranged from back in Australia, picked up from the maker in Greys Inn Road yesterday).

A day later C&J headed back to …

Everyone crashed fairly early, like by 8 pm as the jetlag and excitement caught up. Being so tired meant that four of us mixed genders sharing the same family room at the Royal Eagle in Paddington couldn’t keep us awake.…

Finally got a red wine with a meal! Probably good not to drink alcohol with the chronic dehydration on 19 hour flights (11.5 Perth- Dubai, 7.5 Dubai – London). Emirates Airlines meals are big, four course including entrees, salad, meat …