From Pluto to the sun (and back)

I cycled the Somerset Space Walk today, all 22 kms (or on the scale of 530 000 000:1,
11 660 000 000 kilometres) all the way from Bridgwater to Taunton. The chief difficulty was the continuous headwind blowing off the Atlantic, making even level cycling an effort.

The space walk is a scale model of the solar system, with the sun placed halfway between Bridgwater and Taunton on the beautiful and well restored canal (which is isolated from the rest of the British canal system and hence very quiet).

The canal was originally intended to run from Exeter to the Bristol Channel, and while you can reach the sea at Bridgwater, southwards it never made itpast Tiverton (The Grand Western Canal). During WW2 it was seen as a defensive barrier, so the towpath is lined with pill boxes.
Loads of wildlife including the very rare Iron Bird of Uranus

The planets are situated either side of the sun, so you can walk in either direction. There it is in the distance, just rising, photo taken from the Earth


See?
So you pass them twice, from Pluto (I know) in Bridgwater to Mercury and then past the sun and back to Pluto in Taunton. Each planet is a little scale model
with an explanatory plaque.

Arriving back at Taunton, the train broke down outside the station, and while me and the other passengers froze for an hour, the engineers went out to fix it. So well done for a quick response, you engineers