To the Eden Project

26th May 2016

35 miles, 1030 metres of ascent, total miles so far 97

The Lanyon Park campsite provided baths, I have never before soaked in bath when camping! they were also welcoming and generous contributing to the cause.

It was all downhill to Redruth, a nice second breakfast at the Organic Coffee House there. It was only 26 miles to St Austell so we decided to aim for lunch there. It didn’t quite go as planned, as several short segments of the route turned out to be very rough bridleway, too much to negotiate with the bags so we had some detours extending by a few miles.

Beautiful cycling on little Cornish lanes with hedgerows full of flowers but it was hilly! like cycling waves of land with steep ups and downs. We only pushed once but we certainly lived up to our name going at a snail’s pace. I go particularly slowly uphill, down to 3-4 miles an hour and it is not possible to go fast down hill either on these windy steep gravelly roads, we made an average of 8 miles an hour and were actually very hungry by the time we got to St Austell!

Rustic viaduct tucked up a small quiet valley

Just an ordinary roadside verge, full of flowers

We met up with Jackie Pendleton in St Austell , a colleague of Martins from working in NHS management in PCTs and the CCG, someone I have always really enjoyed working with but who escaped from landlocked Derbyshire to live next to the sea – I can see why after the last few days .

Quiet lanes, idyllic cycling

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Camped at YHA Eden Project , it is raining tonight but they provide a large warm marquee which makes for a friendly communal space so we are sitting there drinking tea and eating apricots. We will visit the Biomes tomorrow morning before setting off up the Camel trail to camp near Tintagel.

People are being most generous with sponsorship just over £1000, thankyou to all for your generosity.

EDEN project space for campers away from the midges