Day One

Marazion to Launceston

TTT=3. This time in the carpark of Costcutters in Perranporth, so plenty of spectators - brilliant.

Cycled 90 very hilly miles today from Marazion to Launceston and learnt a few things along the way:

1. It's advisable to close one's mouth when going downhill very fast. Ollie learnt this the hard way.
2. It's inadvisable to laugh when a seagull poops on someone's car. Karma will come and get you by sending a very large bird of prey to paint you and your bike white.
3. Cornwall is VERY hilly. And very beautiful. The jury is still out on whether the views are worth the pain.
4. Bored Cornish pig farmers like to play a little game whereby they wait for cyclists, then let their pigs into the road as they enjoy the carnage that ensues. The swines!
5. Golfers in Cornwall aim for a 'cyclist-in-one', so when a ball just missed Ollie's head by Padstow's par 3 he 'gave the birdie'...
6. People who hire bikes on a Sunday, particularly the ones who take their little dogs without a lead, are far more dangerous than cars, HGVs, birds of prey, pigs and golf balls combined.

Emily's highlights - after 65 miles Ollie had temporarily given up listening to his audio study notes so as we cycled through the village of St Tudy, Emily gleefully chanted 'Sttudy', 'Sttudy', 'Sttudy' all the way through. We then
stopped for some cake in the village hall where a nice lady asked if Emily was a passenger on a Tandem, such was the difference in our states of exhaustion! Ha!

We also enjoyed 200 Hell's Angels roaring past us - I'm sure they were all secretly envious of our cool matching cycling tops...

We were blessed with glorious weather right until the last 5 miles when it poured with rain, but everything was fine again when we arrived at our beautiful B&B, The Old Coach House in Lifton, and found we'd been upgraded to a palatial room with king sized bed (and real coffee - Ollie's highlight).

We'd like to extend our thanks to Hot Chip, The Feeling and Kylie, without whom we may never have got up the hills today.


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