The Last Few Days...

I am losing some sense of time. With no set schedule, it gets hard to tell wether its weekday or weekend. The last few days have been interesting and fun, Frank has once again gone into details over at his blog, so I will just write what comes to my head and hope he has filled in all the rest. We left london 3 days ago, riding all day and camping in open fields at night. The riding has been alright, a few hills but nothing impossible. I can tell I am getting stronger already. Food has been alright, although somewhat bland on the road. Usually we will stop at a Tesco or Waitrose or Sainsbury's near lunchtime and pickup some fresh bread, cheese, maybe meat, and some fresh fruit (esp. bananas, apples, and carrots). Peanut butter isn't so easy to find here, but we managed to go through a can and a half of it already. From what we hear, it is going to be harder to find in other countries. For dinner, we usually will cook up some pasta, put some seasoning on it and have some more fruit or bread, depending on what we have at that point. (this is where I fell asleep) We stopped at a Fish and Chips shop one night and picked up a feast of fried food - double cheeseburgers, chips (fries), battered (deep-fried) sausage, and pukka pie (odd little pie thing with several choices of filling - chicken/mushroom, beef/onion, steak/kidney beans). It was very delicious and filling after the long day of riding. The last 2 nights we have been in Sheffield with our friend Sally (who we met in Canada), and she has been awesome with providing us with a place to sleep, food, taking us to Alton Towers (the biggest amusement park in the UK) - which was awesome since it was a weekday while younger kids are still in school, so there were virtually no lines anywhere, and it was hot enough that it was refreshing to ride all the water rides. Interestingly they allow you to bring food into the park, and the food they sell inside the park wasn't marked up much at all, compared with how bad it is every place back home. We ate some more Fish and Chips last night. This post was truncated and posted a bit late. sorry.