Strawberry Line overnighter
From our viewpoint above Cheddar Gorge, the town stretched out before us and we could see the hostel where we had spent the previous night.
I was surprised G had been keen to cycle the extra distance towards the gorge and then climb the paths above it to look down. We still had 20km or so of cycling ahead of us and G was only five years old.
This was our first father-and-son cycle tour – a two-day trip along the Strawberry Line, from Yatton to Cheddar and back. The cycle path, a former railway line used to carry the strawberry harvest, is part of an ambitious project aiming to create a continuous 48-km traffic-free route from the Mendips to the sea. That would be quite a ride. On this occasion, the existing stretch of path was challenge enough.