24.05.09
Richard Broad and Patrick cycled 71 miles today arriving at the B and B, Prospect Cottage (hidden down a long,long gravel track in the woods around Bigsweir House between Monmouth and Chepstowe)at 6.30pm. A very comfortable B and B with a wonderful view. Ann Broad joined us this afternoon and the 4 of us enjoyed an excellent dinner cooked by Fiona the Band B owner. The cyclists had cycled from Taunton in Devon, through Somerset,( great cycling county because it is quite flat!) into Wales and Gloucestershire crossing the Severn Bridge on the cycle track. Quite an experience that was! However the downside was that the hills reappeared. The upside was a beautifully sunny summer's day.
Having left at 9.30 am they were understandably weary but had much enjoyed the day.
TThe best part of the day for me was visiting the ruins of Tintern Abbey this afternoon. I last visited it almost 40 years ago and again found it quite magical - no doubt because I had learnt Wordsworth's poem about Tintern Abbey while at school and it had fired my imagination. I am in good company as Turner loved it too and his watercolours picture it in all its soaring magnicence. A Cistercian monastery; it was founded in 1131.
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