Dillan and Jude decided on Bovey Tracey as today’s destination, and we left at 10.42.

This was the first cycle ride with Michael’s repaired Nikon camera lens, so he made good use of it. We took the dual carriageway path past Ashburton, and on the downhill past Bickington, John decided his bike freewheeled faster than Michael’s Mercian! Michael disputed that of course.

We arrived at Café 360 at 12.07, a place that was new to John. The café was very warm and welcoming, and we found a free table upstairs, although as usual they took way too long to bring the coffee up, and the “large” late was not really large at all. John had the soup, which at £5.95 is about the most expensive it could possibly be, but it was large, tasty and fairly good value. Dillan and Michael had coffee and a cake each while Jude had nothing. Dillan used Michael’s camera to take several photos before the refreshments arrived.

Leaving the café at 12.51 we visited the Co-op next, buying sandwiches. We then showed John around the Devon Guild which he had also never been to before, then tried out the “training” equipment in the park. It was very pleasant there by the river, so Michael took a few more photos.

Jude decided to save his Mum a trip to Buckfastleigh, so he cycled home, as he usually seems to do from Bovey, while the rest of us set off at 1.29 and rode back along the same route, apart from riding through Ashburton town and the path past the vets. On the way back John wanted to look at the “pickle stall” he had seen on the Bickington road, Granny Pat’s Farm Shop, but it turned out to be only pickled onions and the rest jams and marmalades, so he did not bother. John went straight home, and Dillan and Michael got home for 3.15.