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| St. Columb Major Church |
Soon after leaving Truro on NCN route 32, it started to drizzle. We put our rain gear on, but it never rained much. This was to be a feature of the whole trip. It was the wettest June in England since records began in 1914, and the news was full of disastrous floods. (A recurring image from the television news that will stay with me are the pictures of BBC reporters who always seemed to have to stand in the water in their Wellington boots to make their reports!) However, although there was only one day (in Orkney) when the sun shone all day, we actually had very few days when it rained enough for us to really need the rain gear. We would put on the rain gear when drizzle started, but usually had to take it off again almost immediately (too hot!) as the shower passed. Almost all days had some sunshine, as well as times of heavy overcast skies.
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| Green Hills, Blue Sky |
The afternoon was sunny, with dark black clouds in front of us. The route was lovely, using tiny back roads often between hedgerows with colorful flowers and chirping birds, and with glorious views of the countryside, although there were far too many hills! By the time we reached Nanstallon where we rejoined the NCN route, soon to become the off-road Camel Trail, we were getting tired, and so we looked for a B&B. Nothing there, but two men we met on the street strongly recommended a 15th century abbey that had been converted to a B&B at Lanivet, a couple of miles off the route. So we cycled to St. Benet's Abbey Hotel to see if they had a vacancy. They did. The room was more than the 50 pounds we planned to spend in general, but the place was delightful, so we decided to stay, starting off with a scones and clotted cream tea.
Mileage: 37.5 miles
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