Up early and off by 9. I didn't have any supplies so had breakfast at the Wetherspoons in Street. As I was tucking into porridge everyone else was tucking in to Abbot Ale!
Route for the day:
Leaving Street and headed towards Glastonbury but turned off to head towards Meare then Westhay followed by Wedmore. This was a beautiful ride across the Avalon Marshes before popping up to the Isle of Wedmore. Down hill then up again into Cheddar. This is a strange place that time forgot.
Jon Skipper recommended the detour up and through Cheddar Gorge and I thank you from the bottom of my bottom for that! :-) it was gorgeous! Hard on the legs but worth it.
Hats off to the National Trust who appear to have turned what could have been a beautiful geological feature into a tourist hell hole!
From the gorge it was back roads all the way across and up and down the Mendip Hills. A real treat in the August sunshine. After the gorge I took a left fork then left turn to Charterhouse left again onto B3134 to Burrington. Straight across until I hit the A38 which was then a horrible slog up hill mostly with lots of traffic to the B and B. It's on the A38 at Barrow Common.
Obviously stopped to watch a couple of planes take off from Bristol airport! Mmm! Planes :-)
Lots of climbing but a lovely day to be out on the bike. About 33 miles today so must be up to about 240 miles now.
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