SENNEN ro PENRYN
Distance: 40.82 miles
Speed: 9mph average
Feet up::3028
Feet down: 2904
Awoke to a clear morning -yippee. Could see that there actually was a village nearby with a coastline in the distance.
Fabulous full brekky, and then it was away on our bikes.
Mayon Farmhouse
Departure
We are following a route provided by the English Cycle Touring Club. It concentrates on the most traffic-free route, and assumes staying at Bed and Breakfasts. Today it took us along wonderful little lanes, through tiny villages, along the seacoast by New Lynne, Penzance and St Michael's Mount on a bike path.
The only trouble is that all the talk of the hills in Cornwall and Devon is true. They are never ending and relentlessly steep. Sometimes I thought we must be walking to Scotland.!!! Add that to a couple of wrong turns and you have a pretty tiring long day
Typically the villages we passed through were residential only, with no shops or pubs, so at about 2pm we ended up sitting on the side of the lane eating an apple and some chocolates we had acquired at Mayon Farmhouse this morning.
A natural addendum to lunch - yummy!
Riding conditions along the way - we might have walked this one, it is steeper than it looks !!
At 4 pm we found ourselves with no accomodation anywhere near, so after asking some locals for advice, we found ourselves on a busy B road at rush hour, heading for the Sunnyside B and B at the 'Penryn Roundabout'. (Kiwis of a certain age will understand my thoughts about the name 'Sunnyside') After a pretty hair - raising few miles, there it was, complete with charming hosts, a cup of tea, a piece of cake, and a hot bath.
We were pooped !!
Our host David drove us to a local Pub for dinner.
We had a great meal. JST had a pint of bitter, I had a glass of wine, and then we had the house special - fish pie.. Our waitress's brother works for Jamie Oliver and the fish pie she made was pretty good.
Perfect.
We have agreed that more attention must be paid to directions through villages to avoid wrong turns, and tomorrow we must stock up on lunch time snacks.
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OMG!!!!!! is so right...40 miles, up & down hill & dale, on B roads, through fog & rush hour..then it all ends well. I think I want to live at the Royal Oak, but I guess it's the pub, not the Sunnyside B&B. What a pair of geezer bikers you are -- and great legs, too.
ReplyDeleteLove from hot-as-hell Maryland, Old Lynne
ps how was my village? (New Lynne)
Didn't you read the Famous Five books - you just need to bang on a farmhouse door and ask the farmer's wife for some plum cake and ginger beer!
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