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Down to Dawlish Warren with Liz to have a look round Join S's new cycle shop and cafe. Then up to the Swing Bridges and back again.

Dawlish food shopping followed by a very windy Swing Bridges ride. Gusting 30 knots from the south - directly into the wind on the way home.

Down to Dawlish Warren for food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Then back to Dawlish Warren for bike repairs. Helluva windy - straight into the teeth of Storm Darcy!

Actually the BBC weather app said minus two with wind chill to minus 8. Windy.

Rainy and windy but not cold. Saw Mark S on the way back - he'd also miscalculated just how rainy it was going to be. Newly serviced bikes nice and silent.

Down to Dawlish Warren for some food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Wet and windy. Straight into a bit of a gale on the way back.

More wind and rain.

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then round to the Swing Bridges. Not as wet and windy as the last few days.

Saw lots of people from SYC taking their exercise. Best weather of the year so far.

Down to Dawlish Warren for food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Straight into the teeth of Storm Darcy!

One major fxxxwit (dog walker) and one minor fxxxwit (geriatric cyclist trying to catch covid) on the path today.

No wind

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then back via the Swing Bridges. Faster than usual for Liz on the way back.

Swing Bridges and Spar shopping. Liz was averaging 12.1 mph by the Swans Nest on the way back.

Swing Bridges - windy but from the side. In the photo Liz demonstrates the art of propping your bike up on just one brake leaver (and on a windy day at that).

Slow ride to Swing Bridges

Down to Dawlish Warren for the bakery then up to the Swing Bridges and then back via SYC to pick up everything I'd left there on Wednesday. And some sea weed.

Swing Bridges bike ride

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then to the Swing Bridges. Too many idiots on the path. Yacht now sunk.

Wet

To Swing Bridges and back. Took some photos of a yacht about to go down. Looked as though it might have been "nose down" yesterday. Clearly "nose down" as we went towards Exeter and worse as we were coming back. Rang Har…

Fast for Liz - especially given that the wind changed such that there was a head wind for the last quarter of the ride.

Given that it was cold and dreek, we thought there'd be no one on the cycle path. Still fairly busy though.

Thought the cycle path would be quiet on an overcast Thursday afternoon. It wasn't. Back to the hills then.

Pre-work cycle ride

More cycling

Was going to be further but Liz didn't like the thunder. Slow - very slow.

Into Exeter and back. Average speed reduced by having to walk past the flooding on the cycle path near the Turf.

To the Swing Bridges and back with Liz

First bike ride in a very long time. Only as far as the Countess Wear swing bridges over the Exeter Canal. Work is about half way through the 14 month schedule of work on the swing bridge / roads. As per the pictures, o…