Day 1. Curl up and Dye (Jony)

Day 1: 110km
Lands End to St Breward, via Penzance, Hayle, Camborne-Redruth, (Newquay), Wadebridge

Apparently proper cyclists reckon that there's no such thing as a following wind. There's either a head wind or you're having a good day. Well, today was a good day; with no luggage to carry (thanks Jeremy), a pleasant mixture of sunny intervals and not a little determination, we set off from Sunny Bank in Sennen at just after 7.00am and arrived 100km further up the road at....err. Sunnybanks in St Breward about seven hours later. 

Mind you, a least a couple of hours were spent refuelling in various eateries and coffee shops in Wadebridge and in the local pub at St Breward. So we were only actually cycling for nearer five hours on and off (but mostly off) the A30 through some lovely countryside, past St Michael's Mount, via some fairly ordinary towns such as Hayle and Cambourne. 

St Michael's Mount, near Penzance

We passed not far from the Fleet Air Arm flying base at Culdrose where, it emerged, Jan's father worked many years ago, until they introduced a lethally dangerous plane that he, rather reasonably, was reluctant to fly. Common sense runs in the family. 

And 'Curl up and Dye'? Not our end-of-day wish after the ups and downs of Cornwall but a hairdresser's sign spotted in Hayle.

Tomorrow we hope to manage a similar distance over the rolling hills of Devon, to get within striking distance of Bristol's Harbour Festival  by Saturday evening.