So, here we go, on the long long over due posts! Want to get these out before I forget! :o)
Day 4 actually saw the wind let up - a welcome relief after having faced strong head-winds for 3 days straight...
A very hilly start to the day, with some of the most spectacular scenery of the whole trip around Corfe Castle and the Thomas Hardy Monument.
The group of cyclists split into 3 today, but all managed to arrive at camp within half an hour of each other, having taken slightly different routes.
My group (I'll have to check the pictures to remember who that was...Bex, Ob, Chris, Mike...?) had lunch in a nice little park in Dorchester, and then got very confused trying to find the cycle path out of town! Went through the strangest new build town and then onto country roads...
The road to the Hardy Monument was (at a guess) the biggest/longest climb we did on the whole trip...I remember spotting the monument from a distance and thinking 'I hope we're not going up there'... d'oh! Every time we rounded a corner there was another climb! (and once a dead badger) The views from the top were pretty spectacular, and the road going down the other side was well worth it. Poor Chris over shot the turning - getting to enjoy a great down hill run, before realising he had to turn around and come all the way back up...just as it started to rain AGAIN!
NCN Route 2 did us proud, with some beautiful winding roads going through a valley, which meant that having done the climb of our lives (Chris twice), most of the rest of the afternoon was down-hill with barely a car in sight!
Oscar joined the support group for a lot of today, as the big hills proved too much for the, (not as great as hoped) 'hand bike', and towing was just too dangerous.
Found a quiet little camp site in West Bay (near Bridport) to call home for two nights, and most of the gang ventured to the local pub for a well deserved pint!
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