Day5. 13th May 2008

My turn to write tonight so hear goes :- all a bit tired but still laughing at what we are doing. Early morning start today pulled into petrol staion at 7.00am, Nick and Gary pull up to pumps and fill up, Gary pushes bike forward for me to fill bike and pump wont re-start. Girl in Station decides to close pumps for 15min to raise prices as I am about to fill my bike. Not happy and tell her where to put her nozzel.
Smiles soon return when we start to ride again but the weather has changed, fairly windy today and we get thrown about a bit as we cross the Humber Bridge bikes struggling to make 30mph in places.
12.00pm sees us in a Cafe in Bridlington giving Hywel and Nia from Radio Cymru an uptate on our progress.
Tonights stop is Newcastle and another 240 ish miles done. So far some of the roads have been fun but others are intense with traffic coming at you in all directions, Nick is doing a fantastic job in watching our backs the stints that we have had to do on the Motorways/ Dual Carriageways would have been frightning without him.
Cant wait for tomorrow this is when we cross into Scotland and what I consider the half way point where we are then on our way home but also are on the most interesting roads of our tip.
Better sign off now as its 11.30pm Gary is Snoring, Nick has fallen asleep reading the map for tomorrows route and my eyes are closing fast.
More photos and notes again tomorrow all being well.

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