Day 7: Shrewsbury - Chepstow

Start Time 08:15

Finish Time 18:30

Actual Mileage 89.7 miles

Average Speed (13.4 mph)

Today was a very big day for England. Some C-list celebrities were getting married but more importantly the Cycle of Life Team was skirting along the England-Wales border keeping those welsh sheep at bay. There was no time for play as we set off at a very early time of 8.15am (compared to our 8.30am the previous morning) and took in the delights of Shrewsbury and Ludlow before arriving in a ghost town of Leominster for lunch. We stopped off at 3 pubs to grab a beer but none of them were showing 'the big event' so we carried on tirelessly and managed to reach our half way point in the day by midday!

Beggers Feast

As usual we sat on the floor outside a supermarket (Co-op this time) and ate our wonderful varied lunches. A highlight of our time in Leominster were the space toilets whose doors automatically sealed when you walked in, whose toilet seats slowly came down as the doors sealed, whose water taps started running after you finished the toilet and which cleaned themselves when you left the vicinity. More exciting than that was the fact that you had a maximum of 12 minutes to complete your 'business' before god knows what happened....

But enough about toilets - what happened for the rest of the day? We continued our cycle ride and stopped in at Hereford, stopped in at Monmouth and then had an hour of 'chilled out' riding going downhill to Tintern listening to classic tunes over a stereo speaker (such as Tina Turner- Simply the Best and Miley Cyrus - The Climb, real go getting music...) We finished up the day checking out the delights of Tintern Abbey with our coach and retiring for the night just outside Chepstow.

Tintern Abbey with Coach Bill Clarke

Hereford's finest

Crashed the Wedding Moment' of the day (sponsored by Busted): Rob threw a hissy fit when he found out the donuts on offer were custard not jam.