{"id":25213,"date":"2017-09-20T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25213"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:59:18","slug":"what-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/what-a-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, what a weekend that was!<\/p>\n

I left work on Thursday afternoon with a fully loaded van. Three bikes, kit for a quadrathlon, surfboards and my surf ski as I had a busy weekend ahead of me. First thing was a drive to my parents house in Gloucestershire where I had dinner and spent the night. I had breakfast with them the next morning then headed off south towards Cornwall and the town of Bude. The weather was terrible and despite working here years ago all of the roads seemed to have changed.\u00a0I barely recognised any of them.<\/p>\n

Widemouth Bay, Millook and my campsite.<\/h2>\n

My plan had been to ride around the bike course of tomorrow’s quadrathlon event to familiarise myself with it. It was however absolutely lashing with rain so instead I parked in the car park overlooking Widemouth Bay and had a hot chocolate.<\/p>\n

\"Overlooking<\/a>

Overlooking Widemouth Bay in the rain<\/p><\/div>\n

I used to park in this very car park and use it as a vantage point to check the surf many years ago. I’d even camped there for weeks on end back\u00a0in the day before such things was frowned upon. There were now signs everywhere prohibiting overnight parking. I am taking a good 25-30 years ago then before the surf scene had really become established down here and when surfers such as myself were\u00a0in the minority. In fact I had stayed in one car park along this coast for long enough to even have milk delivered to my van by the local milkman.<\/p>\n

I was heading to a campsite just down the road today though so once it was gone midday I headed there and got checked in. The campsite at Upper Lynstone was perfect. Plenty of room, nice well kept grounds, clean and tidy toilet block and nice warm showers. It was only \u00a38 for the night as well.<\/p>\n

\"Camper\"<\/a>

Camper<\/p><\/div>\n

With showers available to me I decided to head out on my bike between the showers. I rode around the bike course passing Big Wave Campers. I should have stopped for a look at some of their campervans really but by now it was raining heavily again and I just wanted to get back to a warm shower and a dry van. I did get some nice views of the North Cornwall Coastline and of the Chevron Folds at Millook on the way on out along the coast road.<\/p>\n\n\t\t