cruising

After yesterdays exertions the last thing we wanted first thing was a big hill. Turned out that's exactly what we got as we climed to over 900ft (almost glen coe) just to get to bolton of all places. Although this was tough once we reached the summit a huge tailwind threw us over the other side into a wicked downhill which Mand described as the best on the trip yet.

Todays weather couldn't have been better with gorgeous sunshine and a light cooling breeze as we made swift progress through some interesting places such as leigh and bolton which reminds you of the north south divide in the country. We powered on well through warrington where I showed mand where I used to live when I worked for accenture and before we knew it it was lunchtime and we were in cheshire! A lovely afternoon was to follow, the flat plains meant we kept the speed up and the gps took us on a lovely route into market drayton. Really nice scenery and an easy day when we finally arrived at a good hour-4.30 so chance tonight to catch up on sleep admin and clothes washing before an early start tomorrow on our longest day into gloucester...