Day 1...

So, we finally got to the youth hostel at about 9:30 this evening, and I'm just about to turn in for the night. The sleeper train was great, but it took us an hour and a half to build the bikes up on the station platform with several rail employees watching enthusiastically. We eventually set off only to find our route blocked after 50 yards by the annual Penzance festival! A further hour was wasted negotiating the closed roads before we got down to lands end. We thought we'd lost Ian when we got there only to find he was waiting fur us round the back of the hotel. Off back to Penzance, where the road closures caused yet more delays, then a very scary moment. Ian pushed it a bit too much going round a bend and headed straight into a hedge at about 30mph. He managed to avoid a telegraph pole (about a meter further down the road) thankfully, and miraculously only had lots of scratches caused by a bramble in the hedge, although by the amount of blood we first thought if was a lot worse!

Cornwall is very hilly. Very very hilly. We are all knackered but our kits been washed and is drying, so back to it tomorrow after a full English first thing. Looking forward to the moors...

Photo of Ian skid mark into the hedge below

Lands end