day 2

Woke up to the rocky themetune as my alarm this morning, quick shower and on the road again.  Hurt a little getting back on the saddle, but was quickly told by Martyn to 'man up'. lol.  Today we decided to stay far away from boring dual carriageways and sample the delights of the South devon countryside, which made a huge difference.  We met an old man out on his racer who caught up and asked if he could join us for a while, think he was around 60 years old, but extremely fit and really pushed our pace up for the start of the day, he acted like a tour guide telling us about the local area, and also about other End to Enders he had met on the road.  After around ten miles we said our goodbyes and headed for Glastonbury where we were to meet the girls for lunch.  The rest of the morning was slightly wet to say the least, stopping every few miles to either put on or remove our jackets. 

  Finally made it to Glastonbury and met the girls for lunch (Cheese and pickle sandwiches).  We got ready again then after asking a cycling postman for much needed directions the journey continued.  We now followed signs for the A49 towards Bath then Stoud.  We cycled through so many little villages and towns on our way to Cheltenham, which made for a really scenic ride.  As we approached the ten mile to go mark all our hard work climbing hill after hill, finally paid off we covered around 3 miles in what felt like 2 mins, looking down at ma speedo we were going around 45-50 mph, awesome end to a primarily uphill day.  We phoned the girls to say we'd arrived and they were very excited to tell us that TGI fridays was the restraunt in our hotel, after a delicious steak and chips and laughing at the day we'd just had we went to bed.  (next stop Northwich)   (song of the day 'Tramps vest (Stereophonics)'  (best navigator in the world 'Martyn Allan' lol)