Thursday July 24, 2014

A short bike ride down the hill to the ferry and a short wait and we were on the ferry heading for Wales.

A really smooth ferry crossing, Ralf took photos while I prepared the photos for the blog.

We could have walked to Wales.

When the ferry docked, we were ready to follow the motor bikes of the ship, when one of the dock-workers called us over.  He directed us to a side door, and we joined the foot passengers of the ship.  Much quicker and safer than driving of the ship with the cars and motorbikes.

Arriving in England we needed some English pounds, but there was no ATM.  We couldn’t buy train tickets and we were hoping that we could take the bikes on the train without any problems.  Both of us were horrified when a family of four showed up with their touring bikes loaded and a BOB trailer.  Fortunately for us they were going on the ferry to Ireland.  When the train arrived we were the only two bikes and we removed the panniers and secured them in the bike area.

We had arranged to pick up a van in Cardiff at 4:00 pm, the train had to be rerouted and was going to be late, only by half an hour which actually turned out to be 45 minutes.  We quickly found the car hire place and were on our way to Bridgwater without incident.

We had stayed in Bridgwater when we cycled LeJog.  We knew where there was a place where we could park the van and sleep in the van it was a quiet and secluded place.  We set up our sleeping mats in the van and slept soundly (or at least I did).  Ralf slept with one eye open.