Day 5

I suppose after the driest first six months for about a million years it was inevitable that we would get our fair share of the wet stuff. Our ride today took us over the Quantocks to begin with and we slowly disappeared into the clouds. We emerged into light drizzle and swept down to Bridgewater, over the Somerset levels (mmmm... level) and into Cheddar. To keep with the local food theme we'd started with the cream teas we proceeded to tuck into cheddar ploughman's and cider for lunch.

Thats all very well but we couldn't put off our climb up through Cheddar Gorge forever and so we set off, in drizzle again, up the long climb through the spectacular gorge and over the Mendips.

In honour of the LEJOG ride some of the locals had even renamed a village after Dad - a tad presumptuous at this stage.

We arrived at our site just outside Bristol just after 4.00 pm with Mum and Holly safely in place and tea soon on the brew.

Its amazing how many kind and helpful people we've met along the way already. The owner of our Day 5 caravan site, Mrs Nesbitt, kindly donated all our overnight fee to the Parkinson's UK charity were riding for. Thanks to everyone who has donated, and thanks to all those who have sent comments on the blog, emails and text messages of support...they're much appreciated.