I said that I wasn't going to complain about the weather again in this blog, and I won't, but oh my god it was hot today! At one point we had to knock on someone's door to ask for water. Fortunately the nice lady that answered was happy to fill our bottles with water and ice.
The route was nice enough, following initially the Taunton to Bridgewater canal, then onto the West Deane Way, which was considerably better maintained than its sibling, the East Deane Way, that we followed yesterday. There were some lovely wooded sections that provided shade from the burning sun, and none of the busy roads of yesterday. The rest of the walk followed the Great Western Canal which is interesting for a few reasons; it was designed to link up with the Taunton to Bridgewater canal, but was never completed, also, it is the only canal that I have ever seen where the water is clear enough to see the bottom and finally; it is being actively maintained which we noted as we passed a section that had been drained and dug out.
The Great Western canal terminates in Tiverton and Tiverton is in Devon and Devon really feels like we are getting there.
The lady in at our B&B this evening asked us if we had seen a man with a staff who looked like a Pilgrim heading to John o'Groats. We hadn't, but we had been mistaken for Pilgrims ourselves by a Swiss cyclist in Scotland. Surely it won't be long now before we bump into one of these people.
The route was nice enough, following initially the Taunton to Bridgewater canal, then onto the West Deane Way, which was considerably better maintained than its sibling, the East Deane Way, that we followed yesterday. There were some lovely wooded sections that provided shade from the burning sun, and none of the busy roads of yesterday. The rest of the walk followed the Great Western Canal which is interesting for a few reasons; it was designed to link up with the Taunton to Bridgewater canal, but was never completed, also, it is the only canal that I have ever seen where the water is clear enough to see the bottom and finally; it is being actively maintained which we noted as we passed a section that had been drained and dug out.
The Great Western canal terminates in Tiverton and Tiverton is in Devon and Devon really feels like we are getting there.
The lady in at our B&B this evening asked us if we had seen a man with a staff who looked like a Pilgrim heading to John o'Groats. We hadn't, but we had been mistaken for Pilgrims ourselves by a Swiss cyclist in Scotland. Surely it won't be long now before we bump into one of these people.
Great B&B we stayed at tonight.
Statistics
Distance: 27.8 Miles
Moving Time: 8 Hours 57 Mins
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