Day 4: 100km
Bristol to Leominster, via Chepstow, Monmouth, Hereford
Phew! I have ditched the heavy bike and am now flying along on my roadie. Can't carry anything of course, which will be fine until I discover that I need something (anything)! Sadly, we had to leave Jeremy behind In Bristol, so Jony is overloaded with his stuff and feeling the extra effort (I promise that I haven't dropped my bricks into his panniers): Jeremy, we miss you already!
Lovely route today: over the old Servern Bridge into Chepstow then up the beautiful Wye valley to Monmouth. Stopped for breakfast at the disused Tintern Station, which is a great place - very welcoming. And at Monmouth for second breakfast and at Hereford for lunch. Mappa Mundi closed on Sunday ('we only do religion Sunday') so sat outside the cathedral with Elgar and picnic.
Have arrived for the night at Leominster YHA soon after 3pm but all locked up until 5, so sitting in the sunshine to write this.
Nice photo of Jony on the bridge this morning - compared with yesterday's lashing rain on Clifton Suspension Bridge. And, of course, the shock of discovering that the suspension bridge was closed, after I had made both of us cycle all the way up through Ashton Court at the end of 100 miles in 'tropical' storm. Thought we were going to have to ride back down to the bottom and then climb up to Clifton from Hotwells. Nooooo! I could not believe it! Must be some way of getting across. I finally realised that the bridge was open to pedestrians, so we hopped off the bikes and pushed them over. No such crisis today. The only rain so far was at Hereford - perfectly timed for lunchbreak.
Today's pun is for Marie Saunders: not strictly a hairdresser or coffeeshop, it is Ludlow Pie company's steak and mushroom pie, as offered by the Chequers at Leominster (or would have been, except that this was Sunday...): 50 Shades of Gravy. Ha!
Bristol to Leominster, via Chepstow, Monmouth, Hereford
Phew! I have ditched the heavy bike and am now flying along on my roadie. Can't carry anything of course, which will be fine until I discover that I need something (anything)! Sadly, we had to leave Jeremy behind In Bristol, so Jony is overloaded with his stuff and feeling the extra effort (I promise that I haven't dropped my bricks into his panniers): Jeremy, we miss you already!
Lovely route today: over the old Servern Bridge into Chepstow then up the beautiful Wye valley to Monmouth. Stopped for breakfast at the disused Tintern Station, which is a great place - very welcoming. And at Monmouth for second breakfast and at Hereford for lunch. Mappa Mundi closed on Sunday ('we only do religion Sunday') so sat outside the cathedral with Elgar and picnic.
Have arrived for the night at Leominster YHA soon after 3pm but all locked up until 5, so sitting in the sunshine to write this.
Nice photo of Jony on the bridge this morning - compared with yesterday's lashing rain on Clifton Suspension Bridge. And, of course, the shock of discovering that the suspension bridge was closed, after I had made both of us cycle all the way up through Ashton Court at the end of 100 miles in 'tropical' storm. Thought we were going to have to ride back down to the bottom and then climb up to Clifton from Hotwells. Nooooo! I could not believe it! Must be some way of getting across. I finally realised that the bridge was open to pedestrians, so we hopped off the bikes and pushed them over. No such crisis today. The only rain so far was at Hereford - perfectly timed for lunchbreak.
Today's pun is for Marie Saunders: not strictly a hairdresser or coffeeshop, it is Ludlow Pie company's steak and mushroom pie, as offered by the Chequers at Leominster (or would have been, except that this was Sunday...): 50 Shades of Gravy. Ha!
Kinda strange writing to you today about yesterday. Deffo a Back to the Future experience. Keep at it, lovelies. Sarah xx
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