Cycling in Cornwall - Biking the Camel Trail

The train standing at Platfrom 1 is the 12 o’clock to Wadebridge, Rifle Range Platfrom, Groglen Halt, Nanstallon Halt, Boscarne Junction, Dunmere Halt and Bodmin.

It used to be a railway branch line linking Padstow to Bodmin. Now it is cycling trail. It's also been extended to Wenford Bridge, along an old quarry tramway, to about 18 miles. Apart from the section through the town of Wadebridge, its all off-road. From Padstow it follows the Camel River estuary, after Wadebridge it goes through Beech woods then past babbling brooks, a Vineyard and of course disused platforms.
So my first Monday morning meant a lie in till 8.45, a hearty breakfast then a cycle into Padstow to join the Camel Trail. So over 40 miles but it's pretty flat.

Cornish Pasty

Lunch was a typical Tin Mine Workers special - pasty and beer!
As I had not been doing in any real work I ate the crust! Our Tin Worker ancestors had dirty paws and used the crust to hold the pasty rather than poison themselves with Arsenic. There are surprisingly few watering holes en route but riding the camel is worth a day of anyone's retirement.