We enjoyed our first night in Cornwall but what a change when we woke this morning. Tintagel was covered in what seemed like a sea fret. Fortunately after we had eaten a marvellous breakfast from our hosts (who also provided a conttribution to the fund) we set off to find that the weather lifted very quickly.
As would appear to be the norm, we started the day with another long climb away from the coast onto the main road. It was only for about 3 and a half miles but that was long enough straight after a filling breakfast. Once we got onto the main road we again began to make good progress only for a hill every so often to slow us right down.
After 15 miles we came across a farm shop with a tea room so we stopped for tea. The very nice girl their saw that in our luminous orange shirts we were doing the long ride for charity and could tell that we were battling hard against anorexia so provided us with cakes free of charge, Mmmmm lovely.
It wasn't long befpre we dropped into Newquay and were immediatley stuck in loads of traffic going into it. Cars were everywhere, we are used to them flying past us pipping and waving, not stuck in a long line in front of us.
Its been a long time since the last time we went to Newquay and it wasn't really what we remembered. It was obviously very busy being the height of the summer and the black pig is a bit a beast to push around through crowds but we managed to find a viewpoint overlooking the harbour and saw 2 seals come in following the boats. All very pleasant but soon we left Newquay behind and went on towards Perranporth.
When we arrived at Perranporth a quick phone call to the hotel confirmed what we had guessed "You need to come straight through the town and UP THE BIG HILL, we are the hotel at the top" It's a good job that they do evening meals here. On the bright side at least we should be alright to start the day - what am I thinking? This is Cornwall tomorrow there will straight away be a downhill followed by a large hill immediately after.
It has got to the point now where we are dreading when there is a downhill because we just know what that will lead to.......
Another big milestone today. We did 43.9 miles today which means we have actually done 1014.9 miles since starting!!!! Most end to enders would have finished after that mileage but not us. We still have a trip to the most southerly point (The Lizard) before we turn to Lands End.
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