Day 8 - Nantwich to Hereford

Its a beautiful evening here in Lugwardine, Herefordshire - we made it in about 6.30pm, a long day down through Shropshire & Herefordshire. Total of 87 miles but only an average speed of 13.2mph. The reason for that was down to the small roads we took, the big hills in the way, a nasty head wind for most of the day and I guess the cumulative effect of a week on the road.

We headed out from the Crown Hotel, Nantwich at 9.15am and set off down our course. We got greeted by Diversion signs & a closed road but decided to plough on regardless.... luckily we made it, even the ripped up road was better than the track Steve sent us down in Scotland!!

I arranged to meet my brother Guy en-route & we stopped off at Shawbury to see him. There were a lot of helicopters going round & round in circles around there & I thought another nutter with a gun might be on the loose. Thankfully Guy let us know it was just the helicopter training school at RAF Shawbury where both Wills & harry learnt to fly!

Some of the small roads we took we extremely narrow & the uphills were severe, it took its toll on my companions, they were relieved at the top of one climb but little did they know there were another four or five to come!

Today we had our first puncture, Alans rear tyre went....... took us a while to fix it hence the long time it took us to get to Lugwardine..... It had to happen at some point but we got back on the road and headed off to Ludlow, a very nice town. We stopped for a little coffee in Ludlow & frankly we almost fell asleep in the sun! Unfortunately we still had 25 miles to go!

Practically asleep in the sun but 25 miles still to go!