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<\/a>\nSo what us it with all these Taphouses? I assume it was a row of pubs. The Old Taphouse in East Taphouse still has a notice to identify it.<\/p>\n
The traffic snarls, surrounding me like the Bulls of Bashan. JAL 10.04.2019 The A390 is a busy road and not a great one to walk along but within 2 miles of the start of Day 9 that’s where I was. This main road and its associated villages, the three Taphouses, were the main feature of the morning walk. There was a back road at West Taphouse, a … Continue reading “A day of two halves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nOff the A390 at last the most disappointing aspect of the morning was the news that the local pasty vendor does not sell hot pasties on Wednesdays. A nearby notice tried to cheer me up with the news I was only 777 miles from John O’Groats (we can’t verify the accuracy of this information). <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nToday’s route went right past the holiday Park where we are staying at Doublebois. So I popped in for lunch and a snooze.
\nThe second half of the day and a completely different road: much quieter and with more borders of flowering edges on both sides. I made quite quick progress,and soon arrived at Redgate Cross where the main challenge was finding the cross or at least what was left of it (shaft only).<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nBob came to meet me and we made a short side visit to the nearby Golitha Falls. The woodland here will shortly be covered in bluebells. A quick ride over some of tomorrow’s route secured us an ice cream at a local shop. Morning traffic had made for a challenging morning but over all good weather and cheerful flowers had helped me along.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSharp bends and the cresting hills obscure my view.
\nWhen there is no verge I rely on drains and ditches as places of refuge.
\nEven though this is a challenging way, I reach the end.
\nWisdom ushers me along, making sure I seek clear sightlines and sensible places to cross.
\nI am delivered from traffic, noise and stress and the flower lined green lanes return to guide me home.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nDay 9 of the End to End, Fairy Cross Farm to Redgate Cross.
\nI love the reference to the Bulls of Bashan in Psalm 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"