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 Battersea Bridge, first light
 Ludicrous bike storage on GWR train
 Chepstow station. The crowds gather.
 The first of many
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 Pub with no food. Or beer.
 First sight of the Black Mountains
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 The Crown at Pantygelli. Lunch at last.
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 St Martin's church, Cwmyoy
 Note the 13C pilgrim cross on the left
 Is it me...?
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 Approaching Llanthony
 Llanthony Priory, abandoned in 1135
 The Abbey Hotel
 Capel Y Fin, starting to drizzle
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 The summit, 1801 feet. Now it's 5 miles downhill to Hay.
 Payback. Black Mountain smoked duck, celeriac remoularde, Butty Bach.
 Day 2. The road less travelled.
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 Locked 6 bar gate. Take 2.
 Abbey Dore, Early Gothic perfection.
 17C oak screen with Stuart coat of arms
 Scrapyard of medieval bosses and capitals
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 Kilpeck church. Note the dragon, with curling tongue.
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 19C bible in Kilpeck church. Christ and the crocodile.
 The Old Courthouse Guest House, Ross-on-Wye. My room is three floors up, on the right. Note lack of signage.
 Hope you like fish.
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 My Japanese escritoire.
 Bike store
 Ross-on-Wye
 Caffe Eleganza - world-beating bacon baps.
 St John's church, Upton Bishop.
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 Ancient yew tree in Much Markle churchyard
 St Bartholomew's church, Much Markle. Tomb of Lady Blanche Mortimer, died 1347.
 Blanche's remains are in a lead casket below her effigy.
 The 17C power couple, Sir John Kyrle and his wife.
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 Walter de Helyon, died c. 1360.
 Pretentious, moi?
 The great barn at Hartpury
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 The world's fanciest bee shelter
 Gloucestershire landscape
 Journey's end. The Pelican, Gloucester.
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