Day 1...

22:19 – Sam and Dan finally arrive.

After a lot of waiting, 4 hours at Paddington and then 6 and a half on the train, we have finally made it to Penzance with a smile still on the face. Someone decided to kill themselves on the track and so that slowed us down some more but we are here. We have the bikes nicely tied up. We have the bags in our room and we are going to turn in soon... breakfast is at 7:30, then hopefully at about 9 tomorrow morning we will be setting off from Land’s End on the marathon journey back.

There is excitement and apprehension amongst the group, as well as a lot of tiredness which is creating a little tension, dum dum dum. But we know vaguely how we are going to attack it all tomorrow, so hopefully we will have a better blog than this, merely stating that we are here in Penzance and ready to start riding back. Speak to you all soon, thanks for all the sponsorship!! Peace and love. Xx Sam and Dan

22.27 Joe and Ben
Well speaking from a personal point of view, all has gone swimmingly. Our train was on time, comfortable, full of people i didn’t want to kill, and even served a good coffee. Thankfully for us we got the early train at 11.06 so we hit no delays, though 5 ½ hours on a train is dreadfully boring. We got to Penzance at about 4.40 and dragged the trailer to the hostel – which was a bitch in terms of weight and akwardness. Once we were checked in we headed to town – to wait.
Thankfully for us, Wetherspoons serves a good real ale and egg and chips is a good combination, so our wait was less than awful. From a personal point of view (Ben) I would give the ‘Silver Stalion’ ale about 7.5/10 and the Top Banana about 7/10. The egg and chips was good too. Anyway, i’m looking forward to starting tomorrow, there is a sense of the size of what we’re attempting, but overall I think we’re up for it.
Much Love, Ben and Joe