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Thursday, 17 June 2010
Withdrawal Symptoms
Finally the bike was put back together and on the road today! The back wheel has been in having a set of new spokes fitted (for two weeks). You can imagine our relief having some time off that coincided, the weather to enjoy it, and the bike!
Richard cycled the tandem solo into Helston to pick up Joules from work. Lucky girl! Not only a half day, but a carriage with style! Off with the white coat and on with the lycra, ahh bisto!
Coverack had to be the place today.
Who needs the Caribbean when you've got Coverack? Lunch on the harbour, idyllic.
A cycle ride would not be complete without an ice cream, and Coverack came up trumps with the local Roskilly's variety. As you can see from the photo, Joules had chocolate! No surprises there!
Cycling without the trailer today was vastly different, so much easier and faster! The hills, no, sorry, efforts melted in the heat, along with the riders (and in places the road!). When we got home the stifling feeling that has been growing in us for the last two weeks had been blown away in one afternoon! Free spirit rules!
P.S. Hi Peter!
Richard cycled the tandem solo into Helston to pick up Joules from work. Lucky girl! Not only a half day, but a carriage with style! Off with the white coat and on with the lycra, ahh bisto!
Coverack had to be the place today.
Who needs the Caribbean when you've got Coverack? Lunch on the harbour, idyllic.
A cycle ride would not be complete without an ice cream, and Coverack came up trumps with the local Roskilly's variety. As you can see from the photo, Joules had chocolate! No surprises there!
Cycling without the trailer today was vastly different, so much easier and faster! The hills, no, sorry, efforts melted in the heat, along with the riders (and in places the road!). When we got home the stifling feeling that has been growing in us for the last two weeks had been blown away in one afternoon! Free spirit rules!
P.S. Hi Peter!
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Photos and Thank You's
Apologies for the 36 hour delay, we'll blame it on volcanic ash! We were catching up with real life, sleep and back to work.
As you can imagine looking through the zillions of photographs has taken us right back to the beginning (not that we want to bore you with holiday snaps!). Hopefully our selection will give you a flavour of the ups and downs (literally) and the outstanding scenery that Great Britain has to offer. Click on the Photo Albums link on the right to see what we've done!
As with everything, none of this could have happened without enormous gratitude and thanks, so pick your name out from the list and if its not there its because you're just too special to mention!
Thank you to...
Dad (for having faith in us and being our control tower and support guiding us home)
George (for all the encouraging texts), Oliver (for getting us used to waking at 5.30am), Harry (for not! and for being our ace photographer)
Mum (for the spelling corrections!), Dad (for his encouragement, he really should read this blog!), Alex (for the comments on the blog) and Liz (for encouraging texts & phone calls)
Paul, Jean, Verity, Ashley & Kerris (flowers, wine & chocolate)
Auntie Pauline (for taking on Radio Cornwall & local press), David (for interpretation on mobile phone), Uncle Robbie (sitting patiently), Keira (homecoming flags)
Bonnie Pat & Alex (Scottish knowledge)
Mhairi & Jim for picking us up, putting us up (up with us?) and dropping us off again at an ungodly hour at Edinburgh Station on our way to John O'Groats
The Grafitti Grannys (you know who you are and you know why! for giving us loads of fun along the way)
All Joules' Patients, especially to Peter and Sabine for being there at Land's End.
People we met along the way, especially Careys Guest House (for looking after the bike), the guys at John O'Groats who took our photos, Mr & Mrs Fleming in Tain for encouragement at a low ebb, Crask Inn (for the best water in the Universe), Jessie at Off Beat Bikes of Fort William for rebuilding the wheels, Mr & Mrs Moss for directions through Glasgow, Alice, Andrew, Alistair and Jan at Robert the Bruce Caravan Park (and Kevin for running us to the pub!), Ian Walton (hope you made it too!), the lady from Devon we met at Rowardennan Lodge, Eva and John Gardener in Kendal for the best b&b we had, Barbara, David & Allan for being our guiding light in to Wigan (tail winds forever!), James & Sammie for doing the washing, feeding & bedding!, Andy at the Worcester Cycle Centre for getting us back on the road, Mike for everything he's done (including buying us lunch!), Sheila & Mike for a wonderful evening, Sian for the Avon Cycle Path advice, Roger Bennetts for keeping us company out of Taunton while he was looking out for Mick on his Chopper, Gavin in Bridestow for not running over the bike (handbrakes are useful things when applied), Launceston Cycle Centre for the loan of the pump, route advice and encouragement, Alan & Jackie Winter (a brief encounter with another tandem, many thanks for the donation! The Brooks is on the Christmas list!), Hilary and Dr Steve for the health Spa experience and medical attention, Lynda Thomas for meeting us at M&S (and the bottle of wine), Jim & Gill for coming out of their way to meet us en route and for all their texts & support, Mark Oliver who cycled along Eastern Green in Penzance with us (Good Luck for your JOGLE, and many thanks for the donation!), Rachael the Marie Curie Nurse for giving up her time to be at Land's End. Everyone who turned out on a grey miserable day to see two people finish a bike ride, Peter James for collecting the bike from Land's End and looking after it. Helen for the flowers that waited for us when we got home. To Andrew Chance and Rowes Honda for sponsoring us and bringing us home safely.
Thanks to all those who took photos at Land's End. There are too many people to mention!
Thanks to all the strangers we met who showed us so much kindness, generosity and encouragement the whole length of the journey.
And finally thanks to all those who have generously donated to Marie Curie.
If your name isn't on the list, we haven't forgotten you!
P.S. look out for the book!
Sunday, 30 May 2010
1,028 miles - We're There!
What more can we say? Except a very emotional journey from start to finish.
We left Hayle at 10.30 this morning and were escorted along the causeway by 15 elite Sunday morning cyclists, all congratulating us on our achievement. Toots and waves from motorists, thumbs up from motorcyclists and then a rendez vous with Jim and Gill at Long Rock. Our Coast Watch, Road Watch mentor for the trip (the Coast Watch boys got the prevailing winds right for Cornwall, if nowhere else!).
Passed our starting point at Penzance Station, and then the family tooting and waving as they passed us at Newlyn. Five minutes later we passed them as they waited in a layby with Cornish Flags waving us on our way!
Leaving Newlyn we met two cyclist we had last seen at John O'Groats, amazing! Congratulations and Good Luck were shouted across the A30! Huge grins all round, suddenly the hills felt easy! Well, sort of...
From Drift onwards the GG's had decorated signs and bus stops with knitted daffodils, it wasn't until we went to collect the bike this evening we realised they had risked life and limb to decorate signs on the Heamoor and West Cornwall roundabouts! The encouragement they gave us is incalculable. A flicker directory of Daffodil photos WILL appear... Soon... There will be a link from this blog.
The final mile into Land's End. Predictably the bike had a say in this with a spoke twanging off as we went through Sennen! Who cares, we were within spitting distance! The barrier was held open as we swept past the queue of traffic and into Land's End and the Finish Line!
Roars and Cheers greeted us and the tears began to flow. 1,028 miles in 16 days.
What a wonderful greeting, what more is there to life than family, friends and patients?
Keep watching, there is lots more to say yet!
We left Hayle at 10.30 this morning and were escorted along the causeway by 15 elite Sunday morning cyclists, all congratulating us on our achievement. Toots and waves from motorists, thumbs up from motorcyclists and then a rendez vous with Jim and Gill at Long Rock. Our Coast Watch, Road Watch mentor for the trip (the Coast Watch boys got the prevailing winds right for Cornwall, if nowhere else!).
Passed our starting point at Penzance Station, and then the family tooting and waving as they passed us at Newlyn. Five minutes later we passed them as they waited in a layby with Cornish Flags waving us on our way!
Leaving Newlyn we met two cyclist we had last seen at John O'Groats, amazing! Congratulations and Good Luck were shouted across the A30! Huge grins all round, suddenly the hills felt easy! Well, sort of...
From Drift onwards the GG's had decorated signs and bus stops with knitted daffodils, it wasn't until we went to collect the bike this evening we realised they had risked life and limb to decorate signs on the Heamoor and West Cornwall roundabouts! The encouragement they gave us is incalculable. A flicker directory of Daffodil photos WILL appear... Soon... There will be a link from this blog.
The final mile into Land's End. Predictably the bike had a say in this with a spoke twanging off as we went through Sennen! Who cares, we were within spitting distance! The barrier was held open as we swept past the queue of traffic and into Land's End and the Finish Line!
Roars and Cheers greeted us and the tears began to flow. 1,028 miles in 16 days.
What a wonderful greeting, what more is there to life than family, friends and patients?
Keep watching, there is lots more to say yet!
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Ibuleve We're Nearly There Now!
HUGE thanks to Hilary and Dr Steve! Their care for Joules was amazing - ice pack, hot tub, Ibuleve gel. The perfect combination to get us on the road this morning. They should open up as a health spa!
Wearing most of the contents of our bags, plus a support bandage for Joules' ankle, we set off. As you can imagine, our day started uphill as usual. Bodmin is not the flattest of places! For the first time in two weeks we started off in full rain. Accompanied by a strong head wind.
We picked up the not very old A30 across Goss Moor. A fantastic cycling route, hard to believe so much traffic thundered along it only three years ago. Then onto the new A30 at Carland Cross. Reality hit big time.
Bank holiday weekend, Run for the Sun, and cabbage rigs thundered past... Only to hit road works at Chiverton Cross combined with sheer volume of traffic. We serenely coasted by, chatting with some through their car windows, making our way further and further west!
As we passed Redruth we paused for a bite to eat, Richard looked at the bike computer and realised we had just passed 1,000 miles! An enormous milestone! One of our goals for the ride had been achieved. The tears mixed with the rain on our faces.
We had decided that we would end the day's ride in Hayle today, leaving the bike at Joules' Auntie Pauline's. Arriving early we stopped at Marks & Spencer only to meet two of our supporters, Annette & Alan. We don't know who was more emotional! While we were chatting a lady came up to us with a donation - she had first seen us on the A30 at Summercourt!
So tomorrow we draw a close to this chapter, for those who have followed us thank you SO much for your support, for those who haven't, where've you been? Yesterday we thought it was all over, now, thanks to Ibuleve and the Bodmin Spa, Land's End is in sight.
See you tomorrow (Sunday 30th), Land's End, 1pm. Oggy Oggy Oggy!
Wearing most of the contents of our bags, plus a support bandage for Joules' ankle, we set off. As you can imagine, our day started uphill as usual. Bodmin is not the flattest of places! For the first time in two weeks we started off in full rain. Accompanied by a strong head wind.
We picked up the not very old A30 across Goss Moor. A fantastic cycling route, hard to believe so much traffic thundered along it only three years ago. Then onto the new A30 at Carland Cross. Reality hit big time.
Bank holiday weekend, Run for the Sun, and cabbage rigs thundered past... Only to hit road works at Chiverton Cross combined with sheer volume of traffic. We serenely coasted by, chatting with some through their car windows, making our way further and further west!
As we passed Redruth we paused for a bite to eat, Richard looked at the bike computer and realised we had just passed 1,000 miles! An enormous milestone! One of our goals for the ride had been achieved. The tears mixed with the rain on our faces.
We had decided that we would end the day's ride in Hayle today, leaving the bike at Joules' Auntie Pauline's. Arriving early we stopped at Marks & Spencer only to meet two of our supporters, Annette & Alan. We don't know who was more emotional! While we were chatting a lady came up to us with a donation - she had first seen us on the A30 at Summercourt!
So tomorrow we draw a close to this chapter, for those who have followed us thank you SO much for your support, for those who haven't, where've you been? Yesterday we thought it was all over, now, thanks to Ibuleve and the Bodmin Spa, Land's End is in sight.
See you tomorrow (Sunday 30th), Land's End, 1pm. Oggy Oggy Oggy!
Friday, 28 May 2010
Oggy, oggy, oggy!
Yes we are now back in Cornwall!
We left Okehampton slightly confused by the the map. Eventually we found the old A30 and got to Bridestown. As is typical of rural west country somebody abandoned his car behind us, only to find minutes later he hadn't put the hand brake on. The car gently rolled forward, narrowly missing our trailer as Gavin dived for the hand brake!
Gavin, a navy lad, had cycled JoGLE last year and gave us some good advice on the route.
The miles seemed to drag as we approached the Taymar, but there it was, the sign we had been waiting for, "Welcome to Cornwall"! It was an emotional moment.
The climb in to Launceston is nasty, but the people at the top are friendly, especially at the bike shop. They loaned is a pump and showed us the gentlest route out towards Camelford. Another road that seemed to go on forever without us getting anywhere.
From Camelford Bodmin seemed suddenly within reach and we headed out to pick up the Camel Trail to our destination.
Disaster struck. Joules' ankle suddenly gave her pain. A short rest & some painkillers and we limped on. Fortunately the Camel Trail was generally downhill and had a reasonable surface so we made good time into Bodmin, only to finish the day on a steep uphill! No change there.
Our hosts tonight could not be better. A chiropodist and a doctor! Joules' ankle was tended to immediately. Diagnosis a pulled tendon. A dip in the hot tub, some tlc and an early night and so long as we take things gently it should be alright.
Now, can someone do something about the hills between here & Lands End?
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We left Okehampton slightly confused by the the map. Eventually we found the old A30 and got to Bridestown. As is typical of rural west country somebody abandoned his car behind us, only to find minutes later he hadn't put the hand brake on. The car gently rolled forward, narrowly missing our trailer as Gavin dived for the hand brake!
Gavin, a navy lad, had cycled JoGLE last year and gave us some good advice on the route.
The miles seemed to drag as we approached the Taymar, but there it was, the sign we had been waiting for, "Welcome to Cornwall"! It was an emotional moment.
The climb in to Launceston is nasty, but the people at the top are friendly, especially at the bike shop. They loaned is a pump and showed us the gentlest route out towards Camelford. Another road that seemed to go on forever without us getting anywhere.
From Camelford Bodmin seemed suddenly within reach and we headed out to pick up the Camel Trail to our destination.
Disaster struck. Joules' ankle suddenly gave her pain. A short rest & some painkillers and we limped on. Fortunately the Camel Trail was generally downhill and had a reasonable surface so we made good time into Bodmin, only to finish the day on a steep uphill! No change there.
Our hosts tonight could not be better. A chiropodist and a doctor! Joules' ankle was tended to immediately. Diagnosis a pulled tendon. A dip in the hot tub, some tlc and an early night and so long as we take things gently it should be alright.
Now, can someone do something about the hills between here & Lands End?
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
We can smell the Pasties from here!
Today was a total contrast to yesterday, a real case of "dearest mother, dearest father, here we are at Camp Granada"!
Last night we felt beaten, this evening we feel as though we could have gone further. We're glad we didn't though.
We left Bridgwater in good time and followed the A38 into Devon. A real chocolate box county. Everything looked so green and lush after what we've seen elsewhere. We felt the excitement of getting closer to home. The smell of the pasty!
On a stranger note, we both appear to have grown in leg length as we have had to raise our saddles half an inch! What a diffrence it made - it was like having an extra gear going up the hills! Especially to Monica Selles!
One slight mishap as we entered Okehampton, approaching traffic lights up hill the lady in front of us stalled as we tried to get going. The bike fell sideways with Joules still attached. Fortunately no damage done. To the bike! Joules has a slight graze, good job we packed germoline.
This almost feels like the semi final of somewhere over the rainbow, what will you do with your time after Sunday? How will our readers survive without the updates?
However discussions of what next are already on the agenda, but let's just get home safely first.
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Last night we felt beaten, this evening we feel as though we could have gone further. We're glad we didn't though.
We left Bridgwater in good time and followed the A38 into Devon. A real chocolate box county. Everything looked so green and lush after what we've seen elsewhere. We felt the excitement of getting closer to home. The smell of the pasty!
On a stranger note, we both appear to have grown in leg length as we have had to raise our saddles half an inch! What a diffrence it made - it was like having an extra gear going up the hills! Especially to Monica Selles!
One slight mishap as we entered Okehampton, approaching traffic lights up hill the lady in front of us stalled as we tried to get going. The bike fell sideways with Joules still attached. Fortunately no damage done. To the bike! Joules has a slight graze, good job we packed germoline.
This almost feels like the semi final of somewhere over the rainbow, what will you do with your time after Sunday? How will our readers survive without the updates?
However discussions of what next are already on the agenda, but let's just get home safely first.
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