King Arthur’s realm

King Arthur’s realm

28th May 2016

Miles today 29
Climbing 697 m
Miles so far 157

Martin in the tent last night

A shorter day cycling today as we took the opportunity to cycle down to Tintagel and be tourists for the morning visiting the castle. We were really impressed, beautiful position and views over the dramatic coastline with mist blowing in and out between the blue sea and sky. It is beautifully preserved as a historic, wild place without the king Arthur theme park approach that dominates the village itself, most of the shops have some Arthurian theme. The one exception was a modern statue of an Arthur like figure on top, cast as rather ghostly as if to ask ” is he real or not?”

Tintagel

Tintagel

From Tintagel

Cycling back up from the coast without luggage (we left the bags at the campsite) was a pleasure – reminding us how much extra work it is carrying them on the hills, on the flat it is not too bad.

We then set off along Sustrans route 3 heading towards Devon, rather windy but sunny and beautiful quiet flowery lanes and rewarded by more views over Bodmin Moor. We succumbed to ice creams in the intriguingly named Week St Mary.

Quiet lanes

We are staying at a large camping and caravanning park, very different from last night when there were only 2 tents. We suddenly realised that it is bank holiday weekend, really busy, lots of children having fun, warm showers, somewhere to recharge the electronic gizmos. We have fitted dynamos on the bikes which keeps them topped up through the day but all this social media is juice hungry. Wifi rubbish though so not sure we’ll get this posted tonight.

Thunder and a bit of rain tonight but forecast nice tomorrow.