Goodbye Cornwall, Hello Devon

Today Hayden and I said goodbye to the house in Cornwall and goodbye to the great bunch of people we shared it with for the week.

From left to right: Jack (aka Jack with a soft J) Gibbons, Daniel (aka Dan) Pike, Me! Greg (aka Geg, Smeg, Gregles) Latter, Michelle Dutton, Sabrina (aka Sabzy) Chan, Maria (aka Mazza, Miriam) Palmer, Tina (aka Teen Bean, Beano, anything else with a bean in it e.g. Jelly bean, Chilli Bean etc.) Ridings, Alana (Scottish) Troup, Hayden (Gazedn, Gaz, Denny) Lawrence, Alison (aka Ali, Scottish, Elliot) Alexander, Sara (aka Saz, Henry, Moomin) Spurr, Beth (aka Bum, Bethany, Heffer, Beffer) Spurr. Also present was Chris Balson but unfortunately he missed the photo shoot.

Thanks a lot to everyone for giving me such a warm welcome to England and such a kick ass start to my travels. I can't believe I have only been overseas for about a week, seems like ages ago that I was bumming around Christchurch!

So we left the house and headed towards Launcesten. At the last second we were told that Lawnston was further up the railway line towards Totnes (where me and Hayden were going) so we went to have brunch there. After brunch we went in search of the train station at Launcesten. Our iPhone technology was only telling us about a steam train station at Launcesten (which didn't bode well) and our fears were realised when we asked a local where the station was and were told that Lawnston did not have a train station. Since there was an accident on the A30 to London our driver decided that we would take another road which meant we could get dropped off at Exeter so everything worked out OK.

We caught the train from Exeter to Totnes with no drama and had a lovely dinner with Mary-Jane and Nick Ansell at the Waterside Bistro. On the way back to the Ansell farm we went to get an education at the Pigs Nose pub in East Prawle. After a beer we headed to the farm and an absolutely knackered Blair crashed into bed . Only woke up at about 11:30am and although it was a shame to waste half a day with the Ansells I think the past weeks activities, especially the olympic sprinting and hole digging from Friday, finally caught up with me.