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Glad to hear you're back on the bike James.
I'm down in Cornwall, so Saturday was Sennon - St Ives along the north coast road, popping in to Pendeen lighthouse on the way for sentimental reasons. Really bleak, beautiful and pretty hilly, but the wind was insane, all the way there I was riding into it, a full on coastal wind and on those roads quite big stretches have no hedges for protection, so it was pretty wearing. BUT flying back with the wind behind me was amazing. There's a 17% climb just outside St Just and I flew up it, left the cars for dust on the twisty roads and had a massive grin on my face all the way there. All set against a background of spectacular cliffs, abandoned tin mines and bleak Cornish moorland. Lovely. I didn't meet a man with seven wives though.
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/270609
Sunday was following the coast road in the opposite direction to just beyond Marazion. Unforunately after Penzance everything goes a bit crap, so I could have gone further (and probably should have at least gone down to the coast to mark the end of the ride properly) but got bored and turned back. Similar up and down coast road, climbing up to Treen on the way back and popping in to Land's End (which is rubbish, and it isn't even the most south westerly point, actually) just to tick it off. Highlights included some proper Cornish lanes with massive hedges and two tyre tracks you could actually ride on, the descent into Mousehole (pronounced mouz-ul) - at least 17% according to my map - which was amazing, but the best hill was near Treen - a 17%+ descent into a valley then a 20%+ climb out, followed by a really steep hairpin bend and another 17%+ ascent. Good fun.
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/270844