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After yesterday's toil on the moor today was about the most perfectly leisurely ride imaginable. Cruising down the Exe valley with my wife and son, the sky was cloudless and the countryside conformed to some sort of platonic ideal of beauty. Having grown up in this landscape I was suffused with a sense of nostalgia for a good portion of the ride.
Olivia was riding my mum's clunky mountain bike and was pretty slow as a result, but she was happy for jago and me to race ahead for a couple of sprints. It was an amazing feeling sitting at 25 mph for a 2 mile stretch riding neat through and off with my ten year old son - superprouddadmoment
The ferry crossing from starcross to exmouth was a highlight. Jago is a bit obsessed with animals and I had said there was a chance of seeing a seal from the ferry. Although in reality it isn't very common to see them in that part of the estuary. However, halfway across, there, frolicking on a sandbanks, was not just a seal, but a seal pup, magic! The ride back from exmouth was spent mostly trying to field awkward questions from Jago, such as: " what is the point of there being so many million millions of particles in the universe? " and "what effect does gravity have on time? "
Fortunately, these ponderings were brought to an end by a lunch of the best fish and chips in the universe at Dart's farm, which is middle class foodie heaven just outside Exeter. We scoffed them down next to an enclosure of llamas and then feel asleep in the sun. Pure bliss! And made all the more intense by virtue of the horror of the day before.