Thursday 14 May 2009

Day 5, Woodcote to Coventry - 83


Cumulative - 401 miles. Bum ratings : Miles - 6 Paul - 2 (Paul's new lycra shorts doing the business with their KY jelly inserts !). 

Easy day as the Midlands is boringly flat. In fact we only have the above photo with Lesley at the start of today and the photo below at the end of the day at Paul's friend Dan and his mum Dawn. 

There is nothing of any note between Reading and Coventry.


We scraped the barrel below to get something worthwhile about the Midlands - this is Kenilworth Castle where Robert Dudley allegedly consorted with Elizabeth I before his head was taken off and was previously owned by Simon De Montfort, the Earl of Leicester, who led a civil rebellion against Henry I before being killed in battle and dismembered.  End of history lesson. 
More dull Midlands tomorrow on the way to Nottingham.






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