Over the Bank Holiday I decided to go and do some surfing in Devon and maybe some bike riding too.
Because I needed to get down there early, rather than ride my usual fun route of A36, A30, A377, I had to take the quicker (but dull) route of M3, A34, A303, except it turned out to be not so quick since firstly some idiot had managed to turn their car over on the M3, then someone else had put their car into a ditch on the A34 and finally the A303 was at a stand-still in places, for example, approaching the Stonehenge junction, nothing was moving and it was solid white lines, plus I couldn't see past a large lorry in front of me, so myself and another biker who'd also filtered up just turned off our engines and sat there for about 5 minutes until things moved again.
In any case, following some progressive filtering, I got there not much later than I'd hoped and got some good waves on Friday evening and Saturday.
On Sunday the swell had dropped to virtually nothing and there was hardly a ripple, so I decided to go for a ride down the A39 Atlantic Highway past Bude to Widemouth Bay which was great fun.
For the way back up, I had selected the A30, but found that it was a dull dual carriageway, so turned off and eventually found myself on the B3254 which is an awesome road and I have to ride it again some time, although I think Sally Sat Nav got fed up with my ignoring her attempts to get me to the waypoint I'd selected ("turn around when possible". "Turn right, then take the next right". "Oh, please yourself, I'm not talking to you any more!"
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The ride back home was the fun route of the A377 and A30, so I got home Monday evening, knackered but happy