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Britain 1: Land’s End to St Austell

Posted on 13 May 20132 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley


This was me at Land’s End this morning, starting my End to End to End to End.

I’d only cycled there from Penzance, ten miles away, but I must have looked knackered when I turned up. Everyone thought I was arriving from John o’Groat’s.


Anyway, from Land’s End I set off with an obliging tailwind back to Penzance – where Wetherspoons supplied a fine balanced breakfast, full of vitamins such as Q and X and Z – and on to Marazion.


This is a place, not a prog rock group. It’s the town opposite St Michael’s Mount, which you reach by a causeway, revealed when the tide drops. It’s unique in Britain, except for the other 42 tidal islands.


From Falmouth, I took the ferry across the Fal estuary mouth to St Mawes. This was fun. Any ferry that takes bikes is fine by me. Even if it does involve manhandling a massively laden cycle down 57 vertiginous steps to access a bobbing boat, and doing the opposite at the other end. Doctor, will I be able to conduct despite my sore arms? Well, that’s good, because I’ve never conducted anything before.

Anyway, today’s been a fab cycling day.

Miles today: 70
Miles since Land’s End: 60

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