Tuesday and its to be a day of going off into the sunset so it is necessary to get up ad get on with things today. To that end I am up and into my training kit before making my partner a warm drink. I leave her supping tea while I go to the garage to row for half an hour. It was a reasonable row and I manged to reach my 6 kilometre standard.

I record my session and then have breakfast before showering and getting ready in my travelling clothes. There is time to pack the car leisurely and to have a light lunch before setting off for a hotel near Shrewsbury. The drive is a strange SatNav led journey taking us where neither of us expected. It looked like a straight run across the A5 but we managed at least three motorways and one of those was a toll road. After some wandering around the wiggly bit at the end of the journey we finally pulled into the hotel drive.

We check in and are shown to our room, its okay. After a brief rest we make our way to the bar and sit in the sun sipping our drinks. The rest of our luggage is retrieved from the car and we return to room to change for dinner. Having looked at the “fine dining” menu and decide it looked like something an eight year old food phobic who was just learning French would put together and decided to eat in the bar. Thankfully it was all familiar without a ju or foam in sight. As we ate the thunderstorm that had started when we were in our room continued. It was the first real rain we had seen for weeks, but then we are further west. Having finished the meal we wandered to the hotel gym and Spa to have a look around, it was quite good for a hotel.

Back in the room the TV does not get BBC so we start to watch a film on an i-pad, it is uncomfortable. I return to the blog and my partner goes to the bar. I am tired, very tired, end of cycle, hot flush tired and my back aches so I sign off early with my night meds and hope I can get to sleep early tonight as tomorrow we go to the Shropshire sculpture park, a half hours drive away.