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Saturday morning started early with a 6.30 alarm, it was then a bit of last minute packing before leaving for Euston to meet Warb who had travelled down from Manchester.
Now, Im going to set the scene early here and say that most of this blog is going to be about Warb and in particular his shortcoming (self confessed) as a cyclist.
First stop after Euston was a near by park where we thought it a good idea for Warb to practice using clip in pedals for the first time. Picking it up pretty quickly we set off across London to paddington.
Everything seemed to be going pretty well untill a car flew up behind us crazily beeping, the bloke was seconds of from receiving a tirade of abuse of me when we realised he was actually a good Samaritan, trying to inform us that Warbs pannier bags (borrowed from Pie) had fallen off 200 metres back, something we were both oblivious to. Thankfully Warb got everything back in one piece, although I think one of the panniers did get run over by a black cab and seems to have tyre marks down one side. (sorry about that Pie)
Half a mile later Warbs front mud guard fell off prompting me to think we would be lucky to make John O'Groats for Christmas at this rate.
We met Joe and it was straight on the train for a 6hr journey to Penzance, the journey went fine apart from the fact that it seems First Great Western Trains have introduced a new carriage to sit alongside 1st class and quite carriage, it's called "families with naughty children carriage" with the only criteria for entry being your children have to continually scream and behave like they belong in a zoo for the whole journey. Warb unluckily was sitting in front of the child who liked punching the back of train seats, I found this quite entertaining.
Arriving in Penzance the weather was roasting and the ten mile cycle to our hostel was pretty difficult, the highlight being Warb falling off his bike for the first time, well he actually kinda through himself off in a mad panic as his mud guard had again fallen off!
Anyway that resulted in the 3 of us arriving at the hostel all sweating like hippos in a power shower, so after a quick freshen up we headed down to the hostel restaurant for a awesome lasagne.
After dinner Warb unashamedly brought down the one half litre bike water bottle he had brought, check out the picture, it has penguins on it and is for children, I say no more.
The evening finished with a quick pint in the village before hitting the sack!
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