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Sand between your toes, sun on your back, wind in your hair, salt on your lips -- riding through Cornwall is a delightful, sensory experience, and a chance to savour the magic that sets this Atlantic realm apart.

Some of the Cornish Way is on traffic-free paths, but the greater part is on country lanes, lanes lined with sod banks bursting with wild flowers in summer, lanes so quiet that you'll wonder if time has stood still.

The landscapes you'll see are not only beautiful, but rich in history and varied too: from the heavily-wooded Camel river to the China clay pits above St Austell, and from the sandy coves beside Veryan bay to the wild, heather moorland of the Penwith peninsula where the hawthorn trees are bowed by the wind, this is great cycling country.

There are plenty of reasons to get off the bike too: you'll ride past the Eden Project, the famous gardens at Heligan and Trelissick, and Truro Cathedral, not to mention the plethora of fine village pubs and tea rooms.

The Cornish Way is no more than 100 miles -- a very manageable distance spread over three or four days, but this ride, from the bustling market town of Wadebridge to the Atlantic cliffs at Land's End has the power to take you a long, long way away.

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