CYCLING DAY 5 – Sampford Peverel-Highbridge – 39.17 miles
Today has been an easy day. Just as well as we were both shattered, but after we had our morning coffee we felt much better. Started off by cycling straight away alongside The Grand Western Canal, then joining the A38 for Wellington. Most of the time downhill, that really added to the mileage in a speedy way. From Wellington to Taunton where we joined the Bridgwater and Taunton canal in the centre of this lovely Town. All along the canal are masses of yellow irises, beautiful and the reflection of them in the water gives us even more joy. On to Creech St.Michael up to Maunsel Lock, where we had tea and tasted the best ever lemon cake. The canal path from that point wasn’t good so we joined the road leading up to Bridgwater. We needed to go back to SJS Cycles there, who serviced our bike last Wednesday. We were experiencing problems with the gears, which now has been sorted out –we hope-. We carried on to Highbridge, got on the train and went back to Sampford Peverel. Tomorrow we move the van to a CL nr. Chepstow and have the rest of the day off.