Thursday June 19, 2014

It was a lovely sunny start to the day, but windy.  I cannot really complain about the weather as we have had sunny skies for over a week now.  For the most part we have also had tail winds up until the last couple of days, then they have changed to head winds.

I have been in the front since we started LeJog due to the fact that Ralf broke his mirror.  I gave him my mirror as I wanted him behind me to warn me about the traffic on the narrow country lanes and now we have decided to do the busier A roads I still like him behind me.  This means that I have been in the front and “pulling” since we started.  It is quite exhausting.

Today we cycled through the lovely Market Town of Ledbury.  It was a lovely surprise as we came down the hill to see the old market square and the old buildings.

England does have some lovely Towns.

We cycled through two Counties today Herefordshire and Shropshire.   Herefordshire was fairly flat but it got progressively hillier as we came into Shropshire.

By the time we got to the 50 km mark I was getting tired from the headwinds and the undulating hills.

We had two options for campsites today, one about 10 kms before Leominster, the other about 10 kms after Leominster.  We spotted the sign for the one before Leominster in Docklow and stopped.  Ralf called the second camp site but couldn’t get a reply, so we opted to stop at this farm site – Nicholson\’s Farm, no relation to the Nicholson\’s Farms in Barrie.

It was expensive for what they had to offer, but it was very quiet and peaceful.  We had the site to ourselves and we did have a picnic table.  Ralf also bought some fresh farm eggs and fresh milk, I mean really fresh milk – straight from the cow.