Day 4 Tintagel to Exeter

I did a record of this on my laptop and saved it to a USB. Unfortunately I cannot plug a USB in any public access pc. I think the day went somethig like this. Miat wet start, very long climb up to bodmin moor. Could'nt see a thing, even had to put our lights on for a while. Then descended out of the mist down to Launceston, where we had a full english at a greasy spoon. Then finally left Cornwall and had a long climb up to the edge of dartmoor where we picked up an excellent cycle path to Okehampton. Had a devon cream tea and on to Exeter. A lot of decent on this route and the weather had cheered up considerably. Arrived in Exeter in the sunshine. This was our longest ride so far and we considered it to be one of the most challenging stages, but we managed it without too much difficulty.
Journal entry day 4
Awoke to a misty morning. Only a slim sandwich of visibility from sea level to a few hundred feet. Strange weather - a brisk westerly, looked like it should be raining but it was'nt really. Tintagel hostel is also in a excellent situation, fantastic views over the sea from it's clifftop location. 1/2 a mile or so up a rough track, then another mile or so through Tintagel village before we started the serious climb. Very soon we were in the mist - visibility very poor down to 50 metres. This climb went on, and on, and on. I knew we were heading for Bodmin moor, but where was it? After about an hour we had covered all of 5 miles. Eventually we got to the top, vibility was so bad we put our lights on. Did a bit of the A395 from Davidstow then turned off towards Egloskerry & Launceston. I'm ALWAYS glad to get off these main roads. A pretty good descent to Egloskerry and we left the mist behind. Then a switchback all the way to Launceston, where we had a very unhealthy breakfast at a local greasy spoon cafe. Shortly after leaving Launceston we crossed our first milestone and left the first Celtic nation of the 3 we are planning to cross. We crossed the Tamar and thus left Cornwall. We then followed an unclassified road (which was probably the old A30 from the size of it) through Lifton, Portgate, Lewdown, Combebow and Sourton. Up and down but gradually climbing all the way. Ever there to our right was the brooding prescence of Dartmoor - or would be if we could see it! As we approached Sourton it started raining properly - enough to don the waterproofs. At Sourton, and all the slow progress we had been making since Launceston, we were rewarded with the Granite way cycle path. An excellent tarmacadamed 4 mile drawn out descent all the way to Okehampton. The high point of which was crossing the Meldon viaduct. We treated ourselves to a Devon cream tea in Okehampton before the horrible traffic choked climb out of town towards the A30. I cannot imagine what this place would be like if there was no bypass, these traffic levels are as I remember them 30 years ago when I passed through on our annual summer hols. Then had a lovely run on a back road shadowing the A30 all the way to Exeter. Checked into the Rosedale B&B where the kind landlady allowed me to use her PC to update our blog. That evening we caught the bus into town and were given some good advice from a local couple on places to eat etc. Ended up at the Wetherspoon pub for steaks and Zywiec beer.