Day 30  - Magor to Bristol

 

Date: Sunday 28^th September 2009   Distance: 38.58

 

Service station breakfast not to be recommended though and we left early after very little calories. Surprisingly we pedalled really well again, on cycle-way for the most part and a little less flat. Twice there were “road” blocks and we had to retrace steps or manoeuvre ourselves through fences and if we had been forewarned we would have gone a different route. Still the way has become prettier at this point so we didn’t mind too much.

 

Passed by Caldicot Castle that looked worth a visit if we had time. Lonely fields with Private shooting signs and an escaped bull hurried us onwards. We were ready for our steak pie at the Anchor in Pill after the first long hill of the trip and many more than half the miles of the day covered.

 

It was a day of bridges. We could see them across the Severn Estuary then later we crossed the massive Severn (into England) and then Avon Road Bridges. From Avonmouth we travelled down the gorge, as the track went under trees and rocks beside the river to Bristol. We passed under the picturesque Clifton Suspension Bridge.

 

Bristol has a grand station entrance and we took the lift for the platform. One of the passengers waiting for a train to London was very interested in our tandem. Then I recognised him as someone who made a documentary called “Take a seat” about his journey from Alaska to Peru on a tandem like ours, picking up passengers to “stoke” on route. We took his email address and did a photo shoot then we caught our train back to Cardiff arriving at about 4.30. See http://Takeaseat.org