Saturday 30 May 2009

The end!

The hotel in bodmin was fantastic - the barley sheaf - we were provided
with a thoroughly good breakfast, a good discount off the room rate and saw
one of thw biggest dogs I've ever seen:

After leaving bodmin at the very respectable time of 9 and after 3 long
hours found ourselves in Penzance - the book describes this bit of the
journey as 'gently undulating' - we both have a few choice words for the
author!

At this point we were overtaken by the girls (Emily and Emma) who were
driving down to meet us.

10 miles later we arrived at lands end to be greeted by champagne in tiny
lands end glasses.

So after 1 buckled wheel, 3 new tyres, 5 inner tubes (all daves) and 950
miles in 10 days it's been quite an experience and one I don't think either
of us plan on repeating in the near future - but certainly a bit of an
accomplishment and we've raised over 1500 pounds for bowel cancer research
(donations still welcome - www.justgiving.com/Daveandphil ) thanks to
everyone for support, shelter, encouragement and just keeping us
entertained on the Blog comments.

3 comments:

Jackie said...

Well done you must be very proud of yourselves. It's been fun reading your blog every day - I think I'm going to miss that. we definately owe you a pint or two the next time we see you.
Love to Emma & Josh

lots of love

Jackie & John

tandy said...

Well done Phil & Dave
great news. I knew you could do it but it's still a huge achievement.
Don't drink too much.
Best wishes, Dad

Jim said...

Well done both of you. I've heard London to Madrid is quite a good ride should you get bored again in the near future. Congrats on the money raised. Jim & Karen.