Ingleton - Chapeltown

We left Ingleton Youth Hostel and stopped at the shops in Ingleton to buy some bread to go with our tasty cheese and quince from Booths in Windermere. The cycling this day began with a frustratingly devious and uphill route out of Ingleton towards Clapham (not the London one). On leaving Clapham we headed straight up another hill heading towards Clitheroe. This hill turned out to not just be any hill but the most never ending hill in the country. Every 'crest' to the hill turned out to lead to yet another hill. Whilst the weather was for once okay, we were feeling exhausted and covered the first 10 miles for the day in just under 2 hours. The descent was well worth it though and took us much of the way towards Clitheroe.

In Clitheroe we stopped for our ewe's milk cheese, bread and quince lunch in a churchyard (where we met the vicar, who road a bike and stopped to chat to us about bicycles etc). Cycling out of Clitheroe we headed straight for Blackburn on the A-road (since it was Sunday and nice and quiet). Aside from me feeling quite exhausted, this was fairly straightforwards day of cycling (albeit a very slow one!) and we arrived to Rob's parents house at about 6pm to begin our rest day.