Up at 8 AM for breakfast at the Bay Tree B & B - thank goodness we're biking to burn up all of this food! Decided to wait for the skies to clear more before our loop ride around the lowlands SW of Wells and instead went into town. Peter went off to sketch - his goal is one good sketch a day and so far, so good. I landed at Starbucks only because they have wireless available, at a price of course. But after some false starts I posted the blog and off we went to gear up for our ride.

It is hard for me to truly describe the feel of the roads we typically find ourselves on. Say you were riding down the Gateway trail, or any other standard U.S. bike path, and all of a sudden cars were passing you in BOTH directions! We hear or see the car coming and most of the time look for a pulloff to let them by, as the "road" barely accomodates the car and one bike side-by-side! Add to this that we are riding on the left side of the road and you have some intense sensory adaptation going on. I'm so entertained at my near-inability to use my normal glasses-mounted mirror on the right side of my head; my right eye is so untrained it barely can move in that direction for more than 2 seconds! I did notice some improvement today but it is glacial. So we use all of our senses when out and about.

U.K. road (aka U.S. bikepath!)

Note Glastonbury Tor in the far distance

We did 27 miles that consisted mainly of lowland peat operations and cattle farming - quite a contrast to yesterday's uber-hilly and ultra-textured ride. So we sped it up a bit (hooray, no panniers!) and were at Wells Cathdral showered and changed well in time for the Evensong service. We are SO glad we did. At 5:15 PM we filed into the east nave and sat right in the choir stalls, which felt a bit strange. Little did we realize that when the choir came in, they sat right in front of us - 2 rows of six chorusters directly in front and another 2 rows of 6 across a small aisle. The singing was breathtaking and we were so close to the individual voices we could pick out their parts, such fun.

Vicar's Lane, Wells - home of the choir since 1348!

Wells Cathdral

Floating on air, we went to dinner at a recommended Indian restaurant and were served more food than the two of us could consume in 3 days! Delicious and a shame we couldn't take home the leftovers, hate to waste good food.

Tomorrow we will get a slightly earlier start - Peter would like to sketch more, I will blog, and then we'll tour the Bishop's Palace in Wells at 10:30 AM opening before heading east to Warminster/Hetesbury for the night - it's not a terribly long day (40 miles max) but we'll be leaving at noon from Wells, so our time will be limited. So much to see and not enough time!