Joy and myself continued over and down, and up, and down the rolling and sometimes steep hills of Devon.
During the morning the threatening clouds dispersed and we spent the majority of the day in nice warm sun :-)
We stopped for lunch at a nice riverside pub in Hatherleigh.
At mid afternoon we crossed over from Devon into our final county Cornwall.
We set about Twittering as soon as we got to the sign.
We continued cycling towards Bude on the A3072, and we saw our first glimpse of the sea since Powfoot.
Just after Bude on the A39 we stopped for a wonderful cream tea in 'The Whalesborough Tea Room' at Marhamchurch.
We did spend a bit longer drinking cream tea- in my case and cream coke - in Joy's case than we intended. The people who run the tea room were fantastic and donated £20 to our charity :-) A rather nice customer also came over and chatted and donated a further £10...Thank you to both of you.
The planned camp site stop had been altered to a B&B in Newquay, an extra 10 miles on the day :-( It also started to precipitate as we were nearing St Columb Major so we decided to call for a pickup (The first in the whole trip! but the cream tea was definately worth it :-)
Even Newquay wasn't so bad at the end of the day!
The cycle computer had the days ride as 89.78 miles in 7 hours 24.
The GPS plot can be found here...
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