Welsh Bicknor to Clun

A nice start to the day today - along a footpath next to the river from the YHA, then across a footbridge over the River Wye. Then a reasonably quick run along to Ross on Wye where I stopped at the public library for 30 minutes or so of free Internet access to upload some pictures to Flickr and update Blipfoto.

The central marketplace in Ross is shown here - Ross looks like a lovely place.

I can't remember much about the rest of the day except that there was a nasty headwind for most of it and that Leominster looks very nice (the name isn't pronounced as it is written). I stopped for lunch at a pub and ended up eating a very small potion of meatballs and pasta :-( Bit of a rip-off tbh.

I found the afternoon pretty tough and started worrying that I've not been eating enough. I know that I probably need to eat something like an extra 3500 calories to take account of the exercise - trouble is, I don't really know what that means on terms of actual food and I don't feel like eating much while I'm riding.

Anyway, I'm going to take more trouble to eat more from now on. To that end, I cooked myself a big risotto tonight, with sausages and the chorizo I'd saved from yesterday. Not sure if the chorizo was alright though - I woke up with a dodgy stomach in the middle of the night :-(

Clun YHA was rather nice, though extremely busy - my dorm was full which made sleeping quite hard. YHA bunk beds seem to have been designed to squeak non-stop.