Ben was pleasantly surprised by the significant lack of hills on this morning's excursion to the lanes behind Ashburton. He won 10 bonus points (!) for spotting the narrow mill house by the side of the lane, so he now only has to earn another 2190 points to get a free chocolate muffin!

We made good speed along the occasionally-muddy woodland track that runs alongside the river, then headed for Ashburton for a cafe stop. Unfortunately all the cafes in town were closed, so after bumping into Julian on Western Road we rode back to the Grange cafe at Buckfast to carry out an experiment on the relative sizes of their large and small mugs. The result: the contents of a large mug will just fit into a small mug!