Biking for Besite is a group of people who have dedicated a week of their lives to cycle from Gloucestershire to Cornwall. This will raise money for Hope For Tomorrow and other indispensable charities. The cause is dedicated to and in memory of Andrew 'Bestie' Best who lost the fight with cancer in late 2009. The start and end points are his home in Eastington and Carbis Bay in Cornwall, one of the places he felt happiest. We will report our progress from day to day on this here blog!
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Day 2 Cheddar to Exford
This day started with everyone in great spirits, the rain that had plagued us the following day had gone and the sun was out. These good times were not to last, we made our way to Minehead we had difficulty with the hills but our spirits were improved when our support team met us at the top with our lunch. As everyone know what goes up must come down and we did have some great fun going down hills, and even did a bit of sweetcorn scrumping. Have to say that we really enjoyed going through Dunster, which is beautiful and i recommend anyone to go. That is where our fun and games ended as we made our way into Exmoor and the Exmoor Quantok hills. None of us have ever been up a hill like this and we all struggled. This went on forever and ever, well maybe an hour or so. We did it though even with a bit of walking, but you would have as well if you had seen it. When we got to the top we were cream crackered but had enough time for a quick go on the slides before we had to go again. And on we went up and down the hills which we were extremely sick and tired of. I think the only way we all made it there was by the knowledge that we would be meeting our support team at a pub. The thought of a cold pint and a warm(ish) bed got us to the meeting point and then it was just a short cycle to the campsite, after a pint or two. The camp site was in the middle of nowhere with no electricity but what it lacked in mod cons it more than made up with beauty and tranquility.
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