Today was one of those days when we didn't have perfect weather. We began our ride in the rain and it rained all day.  I didn't take many pictures because I didn't want to ruin the camera.

We rode in to a town looking for a coffee shop or anyplace to find a warm cup of coffee/tea and guess what - it stopped raining. Then we saw this castle that looked like a big Church from a distance.

See it rained so hard that even this Church was surrounded by water.

Let me explain about this picture = we were riding in the rain and it wasn't raining real hard. But when I looked up the road we were riding on the clouds had opened up and the rain was pouring and heading right for us. We looked all around for cover and the only place was this old house. As we were throwing our bicycles to each other through the side wall the "DOWN POUR" reached us. But we had finally made it to cover. There was a discussion of the merits of staying inside this old house until it stopped raining but the decision was to forge on when the rain slowed.

The rain was just pouring out of Gary..... as he looked out of the back of the house  

Andrew saying in his best English "Bloody Hell" I'm soaked through to the bone!!

Cliff saying the same and letting the water fall out of his riding jacket. He looked like a Big Yellow Balloon with all the water inside his jacket

Robert had just finished emptying the rain out of his rain jacket and wanted to discuss the merits of staying or leaving when the rain slowed

There were other places  we took cover this day - one was alongside a farmers barn under the roof overhang. It was raining so hard it was raining sideways and we had taken shelter on the opposite side of the barn and rain.

Then there was the bar we stopped for an early lunch. We walked inside dripping from head to toe and creating puddles all over the floor. Everyone inside stopped what they were doing and just looked at us like we had just came from Mars! Not only were we soaking wet but I was freezing too. The air conditioning must have been set on MAX. But after a few minutes we began to say hello and talk with everyone we were accepted. Avoiding a "Deliverance" moment. After we had a nice lunch we headed back outside and once again the rain had temporarily stopped.