Thus Sunday 27th June saw an early start, heading down the M5 for Cornwall, hopefully ahead of all the traffic. With the England vs Germany World Cup game scheduled for the afternoon, we were hoping that the relief drivers would have a quiet motorway for the return journey.
I recall from many years ago, that Cornish holidays were fraught affairs requiring a 3:00 a.m. start to avoid the old A30 hold ups. No longer is this the case, the nice new (mostly) dual-carriageway whisking motorists into deepest Kernow in a fraction of the time. So much so that we were being dropped off in Penzance shortly after 11 a.m.
Note the sign in the background. I haven't decided whether we are 'children' or 'elderly'.
Whilst we headed off to St Just to find our YHA dwelling, my wife and father in law turned and headed back. A very gentle hour and twenty minutes later and we had found the YHA, and ground our way into St Just on the weeks first search for food.
Holing up in the Wellington Inn, local bitter was sampled whilst watching an inglorious exit out of the World Cup. At least this took the pressure off the final day, we no longer had to rush to Thurso to catch the quarter finals. By the time the match was over, the car was back at home, having enjoyed a vacant motorway network whilst the footie was on.
Returning over the hill to the Youth Hostel, it was confirmed that the 1 stone Carradice DID have an effect on Mr Trek's handling characteristics. It handled like a lump of concrete! This was going to take some getting used to.
Our room at the YHA was solely filled with cyclists, all doing End-to-End in different timeframes. This would be the last time we saw any of them. Alarms were set for 5 a.m. and an early night enjoyed.
Day 0 - 18.6km Average Speed not much
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