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Boarding the ferry

 

Wednesday evening

 Not the best of days rained hard all afternoon I realised that I needed to get North in order to visit some of the places  Things didn’t go so well when I couldn’t find my ear plugs I still haven’t found them so will have to buy some tomorrow  Then I found the chain had stretched  and needed adjusting but I couldn’t undo the lock nut with my adjustable so was forced to stop at a tyre fitting garage and the mechanics kindly leant me the required 27 mm socket so that problem was sorted  Then the rain started and just kept coming at one stage I was forced to take cover in a most ingenious way I stopped at a barbershop and had a wet shave by the time I was finished it was starting to clear up but it was still cold enough for heated grips  A long and hard day a total of 241 miles mostly dual carriageway and motorway but enough 100 km single carriageway to keep me interested The roads here remind me of the A4 out of London fast long sweeping roads plenty of over...