Weds 21st July : Stratford - Worcester

Another ride through pretty countryside

Struggled to find the campsite which was just outside Worcester. I've sort of already talked about this day in an earlier entry so wont repeat myself.

Set up camp on a site between the dual carriageway and a river. There were loads of permanent caravans there, as in, they were peoples pride and joy getaways. But who would want to set up house under a dual carriageway, and by a really grotty river full of shopping trolleys and a squillian midges? There was a nice rainbow though.

Guy in the tent next to me (the only one) was there because he was doing work experience and it made for a shorter commute. So I guess he was about 16. He was working at some recycling information centre or something (kinda phazed out when he started talking hippy...lol). He described himself as 'pretty hardcore' deciding to camp for the week. He was only messing, of course, and I did think at the time 'its hardly a polar expedition mate!', but you know what, he was there in a field all by himself boiling his pasta each morning as part of his packed lunch, and sleeping alone in a tent in a swampy field under a blumin' expressway and for 16, that is pretty 'hardcore'. Go to the top of the class young man.

Learnt today:
1) My tent has a window. Cool. Zip zip zip.
2) I dont like bananas
3) Horses are now on the list. Their heads are way too big and their eyes are freaky.
4) Its really only me that gets wound up by my wind-up radio. Wind wind wind wind wind....5 seconds of radio...wind wind wind wind wind...2 secs of radio. Repeat all night.

Distance = 41.0 miles
Time cycling = 4hrs 54mins
Aver. speed = 10.5mph
Other = 10.5 miles
Total today = 52 miles
Overall = 143 miles