We thought we'd stay on the A30 (big main road) for a chunk of the day to get some miles in. So we ground out 50 miles of fairly busy road before breakfast. The only real highlight was a few miles of as yet unopened new dual carriageway which we sneaked onto. Rather nice peddling along your own empty road.
After a deeply unhealthy breakfast, we did another 40 miles on the A30, at one point we caught up with a huge tractor going at 25mph which we tucked in behind and let it suck us along for some miles.
Now clearly I wouldn't agree with Jeremy Clarkeson when he says that "if cyclists worked harder, they could probably afford to buy a car", however I have considerable sympathy with his views on Caraveners. At one point an out of control caravan nearly swated Chris as casually as one might swat a fly.
Last 40 miles was on wonderful country lanes, some pretty horrid hills between Crediton and our final destination, Tiverton. Got to Tiverton at about 6 and just had a great meal and fine beer in a local pub.
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