Half Day Holiday 13 in the garden of Eden.

Woke up about 4:30 am freezing my ass off on a deflated mattress! Needless to say, once again it was another delayed morning. At this point, everything hurt. Knees, ankles, back, neck little toes (yes my little toes hurt) and my face from mild sunburn.

Our friend Mike has to text us the night before saying he wasn't going to make it down to Cornwall over the weekend. So this let us loosen up on time and so we had discussed that today, day 13. We would have a half cycle and half holiday day where we can do something awesome. What's more awesome than cycling through loads of hills to go to the Eden Project?!?

So eventually, after I stopped sulking and got ready to go, we set off. Up and down we went, hoping to find somewhere along the way to get some quick food. We found nothing so we carried on cycling. The sun was getting hotter and hotter, I swear it was getting hotter at the top of those hills too. We came to one hill that was pretty damn steep. I cycled off like I normally do, farting past Becky to speed up the hill. Just when we thought we were near the top, we cycled past a real Devon pirate. Ok, so he wasn't a pirate but had that kind of accent. And as we cycled past him, huffing and puffing gasping for air. He laughed and said something we couldn't fully make out. It was something like "haha good job your wearing *blank blank blank*  for going up the long big hill". I prayed he meant the big ass hill we had already cycled up!! I was wrong. The road climbed and climbed and climbed. Eventually, when we got to the top I got off and lay on a grass bank and had a 2-minute doze. When I woke. Becky was by my side doing the exact same thing.

Once we found the energy to continue, feeling super hungry now. We finished the last tiny bit of the hill as the keen Saturday cyclists, cycled past us having a nice calm chat. Not out of break like we where. I like to think it's because our bikes with all our gear weighed 10kgs more than theirs.

Shortly after passing some fields and old mill/mine ruins. We cycled through Minion. Yes, the place is actually called Minion! The people in minion seemed very happy and proud to be minions too. I like to think they have a special day once a year where they paint themselves yellow and speak in jibberish. We found a nice shop where we got ice cream, some crisps and some buns for crisp butties. (A solid healthy breakfast I know.)

We sat outside the shop in Minion eating out crisp butties and notice the field with sheep right in front of us, had no fencing or anything around it. There was nothing stopping the sheep from wandering into the road. We sat there for an hour watching the sheep cause Saturday traffic nightmares and one even came up to us wanting some crisp butty. I denied the little fella and so she went on to eat Becky's fingers. Was quite amusing to watch.

We got back on our bikes and cycled down one EPIC down the hill. Only slowing down to go over cattle grids. As we have all imagined what could happen cycling over those human-sized cheese graters. We cycle up and down again doing near enough 3,000ft of elevation in 30miles.

Eventually, we arrived at the even project, more sunburnt than before and extremely hungry. The lack of food and the hot day was making me sleepy.
We got changed at the side of the road by the bike racks and were the buses going to and from the Eden Project go past nice and slowly. Also when I say got changed, mean fully, stark nudey changed. We did use coats to cover ourselves. We are not that seamless... Ok, Becky's not that shameless.

We rocked up and first thing first, we got cake and coffee. And so much water. Then we wandered into the project. We walked past some beautiful flowers and an ice cream shop. Naturally, we got ice cream and sat down on a swinging seat where upon finishing my ice cream, I fell asleep. Proper asleep, grandpa style. Full on deep sleep, snoring, fingers crossed on my bells and head flopped to the side. This wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't in the middle of a massive seating area where people have to pass through. I like to think i was the highlight of someone's day by having that nap.

I woke up with a real thirst from falling asleep in the sun. We spent the next few hours wondering round and exploring the awesome Eden Project. Becky wanted to buy SO much. Where i took great pleasure in reminding her she has to get it on her bike!!

There is a YHA right next to the Eden Project. So we decided to stay there for the night and camp in the campsite. It was awesome. It had pizza and a bar AND breakfast too. That was us sorted for the night. It got cloudy so the night was warm too.

I woke up at 0330 with the pillow on my inflatable sleeping matt now punctured too. I was not happy but to tired to do anything about it. I realised this was the last night camping so i could say goodbye to the fuc#$r in the morning and lighten up my bike a little. The mattress was only cheap so i put it in the recycling bin. At least at the even project, it will be used and recycled for something good.