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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Somerset » Dulverton September 15th 2017

Morning arrived, and while I had slept comfortably in my tent, it had rained overnight. No avoiding it...priority one... need to pee. After the mad rush to the washroom block, the slog through the long wet grass, and a quick shower, it was soggy tent packing time. Bike loaded, I had a morning briefing with Joe America (neighbouring cyclist/tenter), and then I was on my way to find my morning coffee. Rather than mount an expedition to find a morning friendly eatery, I headed to the Morrison's (mega grocery store with restaurant) that I has spied yesterday. I made it, after almost getting t-boned at a busy roundabout. Morrison's was my meal/coffee break theme for the day, as they also popped up trailside in Bridgwater and Taunton. More salt flats riding to start my morning, then ... read more
No Option - Route Defined

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Somerset » Dulverton March 20th 2013

It made a strange change to leave Georgie behind and head off in a car for the day…. Woolly says – Ian’s Mum very kindly lent us her car and Ian took great joy in whizzing round the small lanes of Somerset while Jo and I turned a mild green colour, we were very grateful to arrive at Dunster Castle in one piece. Feeling a bit peckish we took the short walk into the town centre and settled down in The Castle Coffee house, ordering a full breakfast each, I crunched away on Jo’s toast while we split the paper between us all (I do enjoy a bit of celebrity gossip!). Fully sated we first wandered to the old yarn market, a beautiful round building which is incredibly well preserved we then walked up to the ... read more
Dunster Castle
Looking forward to the day
The front of Dunster castle

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Somerset » Dulverton March 19th 2013

After a very cold night, we pulled off from our muddy pitch and set off through the Mendips…… Woolly says – A day to look forward to as I would get at least TWO places ticked off in my I Spy book!!! We (well Ian and Jo) had dug out the old Sat Nav and had decided to run Sat and Tom Tom together to see how accurate Tom actually is! This caused me great amusement throughout the day as a quite demanding female voice told Ian and Georgie to turn left while the other huskier female voice begged for them to turn right, this happened quite a few times - note to Ian, check the Tom’s settings!!!! Riding upfront I was able to look at the lovely scenery as we took the roads through to ... read more
A bit of a view
A cold Weir
Admiring the views




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