Somersets growing cycle network bears fruit- a ride on the Strawberry Line - Cycling holidays

Mostly traffic-free and flat, this route between Yatton and Cheddar takes in old stations and views across the Levels to the Bristol Channel and its being extended to form part of the 76-mile Somerset Circle Its a noise the former railway tunnel probably hadnt heard in a while. Somewhere in the dark is a hooting part-owl, part-forlorn steam train. My sister Ele has stopped on her bike to blow determinedly across her cuppe