{"id":908,"date":"2012-12-18T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2012-12-18T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T19:03:28","slug":"plymouth-to-exeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth to Exeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This years plan is to get to Southampton from Plymouth. First step was to get to Plymouth and with all Kings Cross trains cancelled I managed to get to there at 11:30PM.<\/p>\n

Onto day 1.<\/p>\n

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Leaving Plymouth takes you through a nice park which is really is mountain biking route, but the winter tires did their job.<\/p>\n

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The paths next to the stream are nice as because it has been raining a lot, the streams are lively and there are plenty of waterfalls.<\/p>\n

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The water was far away at this point, this was nice. Later the lively water was annoying as it was over the roads.<\/p>\n

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The trail tries to use as much of the old train line as possible. Here is where the remaining track ends and the cycling trail takes over.<\/p>\n

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To get on some, you have to ride through them before riding up to the start. This is nice because you can see them from both angles.<\/p>\n

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The route has many many viaducts to go over the vallies<\/p>\n

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There was a lot of moisture steaming off things like benches.<\/p>\n

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Entire fields were steaming. It was quire impressive.<\/p>\n

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And of cause tunnels. If you ride through tunnels, you will get wet as the ceiling dribbles over all who dare to pass through.<\/p>\n

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Then came Dartmoor which was beautiful, but it has hills. Dear god, so many hills. 20% gradients. Sharp corners on descents.<\/p>\n

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Now, this is a road. Not some dodgy unmapped road. It is a real road on both Google maps and open cycle maps. Both suggested this route. But OK, I can still use the foot bridge.<\/p>\n

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But 200m further you come across this. No, There is no way you can ride through that. I did manage to find a foot bridge that got me to a footpath. Generally the roads were crazy. Covered with mud, rotting tree branches and streams flowing down them on gradients.<\/p>\n

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Finally got to Exeter with the rather scary cycle routes right next to the river..<\/p>\n

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Exeter seems to be obsessed with guns.<\/p>\n

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But more annoyingly, they really like cobble stones on roads with 15% gradients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This years plan is to get to Southampton from Plymouth. First step was to get to Plymouth and with all Kings Cross trains cancelled I managed to get to there at 11:30PM. Onto day 1. Leaving Plymouth takes you through a nice park which is really is mountain biking route, but the winter tires did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}