The Longboat Inn. Penzance, UK. 7am, September 2019

The Longboat was the first of 14 different places scheduled for 14 consecutive nights as Barry Scowen and I, along with 13 others and the great team from PedalBritain, set out to cycle LEJOG, the 1,000 miles and 55,00 feet of climbing between the most southerly point of Great Britain - Land's End - and John O'Groats, the farthest point north in Scotland. Directly outside this first floor window was where the taxis were waiting to take us to meet our bikes at Lands End ready to set off.