Day 3 - Exeter to Glastonbury

Another day another county. Today we travelled into Somerset (Which must be said in a country farmer type accent with a piece of straw hanging from your mouth). We made great progress in the first part of the day travelling into Taunton before joining the Taunton to Bridgwater canal path.

After this picture was taken we headed through Wellington to see what it had to offer as well as to restock supplies and to find a toilet. An Asda! Excellent. "Which direction to your customer toilets please? We don't have any. Public toilets next to the garage". And so off we went, to find some 'lovely' stainless steel toilets. No toilet seat mind you. That would be too much comfort. These things come with their own sharps bin. You don't see many of those in a town voted best mid sized town in bloom competition. For many years running it would appear.

Soon after Wellington we were heading to Taunt9on when at the roadside was a familiar face of Jonathan Price, a colleague from work. He like many had been tracking me live, and being in Wellington decided to track me down. So there he was standing with his daughter. It was great too see a familiar face and to remind us that so many people are following our progress. Thanks Jonathan!

And with that we were off once more, Taunton and food on our minds. After sailing through the town we were just as quickly heading out the other side looking for a pub along the canal path. We found one in Creech St Michael called The Bell. A helpful landlord helped with our bikes into the garden which was full of bench tables. A curious place. It took Peter 4 attempts to pick a table which didn't have the smell of dog poo. It looks like this garden is also the dog walk!

sitting waiting for our food another tables order arrived. "Who's is the chicken burger?" The landlord asks. "What's in it?" came the reply. "Chicken". Well at this point Holly just became a giggling wreck. There was another curious discovery we found in the garden. An ancient wall, made from stuff you make walls out of. Just look at the workmanship here.

Overall the food was good and the staff very friendly aiming to please. We certainly had a good laugh.

Onwards to Glastonbury. Except now the heat was intense. Ans added to that we had a headwind resulting in riding what can be described as someone with a very large hair dryer pointed at you. It slowed us down but we still made it by 4.30pm.

We have suffered a couple of breakdowns. Holly has a broken brake leaver and the satnav died. Both are a big problem. Tomorrow is a new day that will take us to Hereford! Weather forecast is set to be hot once again. :-(