Fame at Last?

A morning of rain followed by an afternoon of showers tested waterproof panniers and rainwear to the limit. In Exeter a motorcylist pulled up alongside us at a roundabout and said we had been on local radio. Hope they said something nice! At Cullompton a van driver who had seen the Help the Hospice sign on William's bike pulled us over and handed us some sponsorship - a real morale booster in the rain!

The rain stopped briefly around lunchtime so we could eat our sandwich lunch in comfort. We met an 80 year old man who said he had started Lands End to John O' Groats on Wednesday with a friend but had come off his bike on Thursday and had had to give up. His friend had carried on and was somewhere north of Hereford.

First puncture of the trip was William's front wheel this afternoon. This delayed us by 20 minutes but we still made it to the services at J19 of the M5 before 6pm where we thought the hotel was. Only it wasn't! A quick phone call established that the brand new hotel had been built 2 miles in the wrong direction in Portishead proper.

The attached photo was taken by William's colleague Steve LeMare who met up with us at Yatton.