Today's weather was just about perfect for winter cycling, and seemed to be the first sunny Sunday we have had for months. Everyone was keen to make the most of it with a good ride, so we headed along Colston road to the new cycle path to Dartington. There was much enthusiasm about the Easter tour and car-assisted rides, so this really was turning out to be a great start to our new year of cycling.

We expected everything at the Cider Press Centre to be closed at this time of year and so were planning on continuing to Totnes, but amazingly several outlets were open and nobody could resist the prospect of refreshments at Cranks restaurant.

Once cakes and drinks had been consumed Zac and Ryan wanted to check out the "healthy" sweet shop. Michael thought he would try some chocolate-coated Turkish delight for the first time in many years but it didn't work out too well: he got only four small pieces for 98p, and Ash, who had never tried it before, said it tasted like soap! Well I suppose it does really.

It was now gone twelve so we headed back along the main road over Riverford Bridge and then took the track to Hole Farm. Ryan had some knee problems but we eventually reached home by 1.35, allowing the gamers a couple of hours to have fun on the computers.