Yesterday set out with a pretty mundane ride to Manchester to the train station. Just stuck to A roads to get there quicker. 4.5 hrs and a couple of coffees later the train arrived in Exeter and I started cycling towards Dartmoor. An hour into the ride I passed right by the hostel at Dunsford, it was already 7.30pm so I called in to ask if they had a spare bed. Patrick the hostel owner was busy trying to round up his two mad dogs and after finally getting them inside told me that they had plenty of space and I'd have a whole room to myself - perfect. After a quick shower and wolfing down a bowl of couscous and tuna I spent a happy couple of hours infront of the wood fire drinking loads of tea and getting into my holiday reading. Set off this morning after a bowl of porridge and crawled up some steep roads to the heights of Dartmoor. Whizzing down the hill through Postbridge I saw a sign for Cream Tea so grabbed the breaks and pulled in to consume two small scones and 4oz of clotted cream. I'm sure I'll burn it off in a couple of days. Not far then to Princetown where it was all pretty much downhill to the coast. I followed cycle Route 27 most of the way into Plymouth wich started with a great offroad descent to an old railway line that sloped gently downhill for miles to the sea. So now I've boarded the ferry and am sitting in a deck chair on the helipad in the sunshine. Ideal. Let's hope it not too rough out there!