Day 6 - 15th June St Brievals to Ironbridge
Left at 9:06am- arrived at 20:45 hrs - 85 miles an emotional day!
we started the day with a three mile climb out of the Wye Valley before hitting Ross On Wye for a tea and cake stop, which was just in time before the rain came down - a lucky escape as we didn't get rained on this day. We stopped high in the valley for lunch eating our sandwiches overlooking the Herefordshire countryside. A hard day with undulating terrain. We soon headed north in to Herefordshire, before reaching our B&B at Ironbridge. Our B&B was superb, Ros our landlady couldn't do enough to help, she even got up extra early at 6am to dry our washing - a lovely lady and we will certainly be back, but not on the bikes!!

Deb needed assistance for her tried and tested shoes to be shipped, as her new shoes were causing blisters. Thanks to Carol for organising this and sending the old shoes on to our next B&B in Cheshire

Day 7 - 16th June Ironbridge to Cheshire - 77 miles
Left at 8:40 - arrived at 6:30pm
A good day today as the terrain flatterned out as we moved from Shropshire in to Cheshire. We met the Sky ride on route coming the other way! 600 cyclists going the opposite way to Lands End. They were on day 5 covering 100 miles a day with full back up and caring no luggage. As the flew past us in the opposite direction we yelled out to each other and gave high fives as. Past each other- our spirits were lifted for many miles as we watched them go past us and gave each other encouragement.


Day 8 - 17th June. Cheshire to Lancaster 74 miles
The best day yet! We made good progress covering 20 miles in the first hour. The wind was behind us and we followed the main A6 - a good straight road that we could pick up pace. We have seen the most pot holes over the last few days after leaving Bristol.
We popped in to Morrisons to pick up a good selection of sandwiches for luck, before having a pick nick at the side of the road. we have been very lucky today as we kept dry all day and dodged the rain showers.

top speed so far on the trip is 42 miles an hour, currently held by Debra!

Our kind land lady Sally has offered to do our washing tonight by hand - what a sweetie

We met Richard and Lisa for dinner tonight (Debra's nephew who lives nearby) which was really nice.

Thanks to everybody who has kindly made a donation to our chosen charities - we really appreciate your support.

SOS - if anybody out there fancies a nice week on the east coast of Scotland next week please contact Debra on 07802 569646 by text as we need some help carrying our luggage through Scotland.