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then leave them at his. That's alright with you Mike isn't it?' Mike nodded. 'Then, in the
morning, you can come and help me load up the trailer and come back into town to set up
the rest of the stall. Then when you want to leave, you can wander up the road to Mike's
house and pick up your bikes. Because his house is at the top of the street, you will have
cycled past it already so you won't have cheated at all. How does that sound?'
Rob had become my new hero.
'Amazing. Thank you,' I said.
'Happy now?' whispered Ben as we climbed into the trailer with our bikes.
'Yes, very.'
After dumping the bikes in Mike's back garden, Rob drove us the ten or so miles to his
farm on the outskirts of Gloucester.
He led us through the large farm kitchen, up the stairs and into a giant guest bedroom.
A giant bedroom, I mean, not a room for giant guests.
'Rob, we were expecting a barn or something to sleep in tonight. Not one of your bed-
rooms. Honestly, we would be perfectly happy with the onions,' I said.
'Don't be silly, I'm more than happy for you both to stay here.'
As soon as he had disappeared, I dived for the bed.
'I'm having the bed this time,' I shouted.
'You bastard,' said Ben.
After a quick wash and change from one smelly t-shirt to another, we went downstairs
to meet Rob.
'So have you guys really never heard of the Severn Bore?' he asked, when we were in
the kitchen.
'After you mentioned it I realised I had heard of it before,' I said, trying to disguise my
ignorance.
'I've never heard of it,' said Ben, without trying to hide his.
'Basically it's a wave that goes up the river against the current. It happens a couple of
timesayearmaybe,buttheonetonightisgoingtobethebiggestin25yearstheysay,'said
Rob.
'Cool. How do they happen?' asked Ben.
'Basically it's when there's a high tide and the level of the sea becomes higher than the
natural level of the estuary. The water has to go somewhere so it sends a wave of water
several miles up the estuary. People surf it sometimes. In fact this one guy earlier this year
surfed over seven miles down the river. Anyway, we'd better get a crack on. If you grab as
many of those bags of barbeque stuff as you can on the way out that would be great.'
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