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E2E Day 14 – Carlisle to Sanquhar

E2E Day 14 – Carlisle to Sanquhar

E2E Day 14. Today was really great weather – in fact it was almost too hot! We rode through some great lanes this morning. We crossed the border into Scotland at Gretna. Then went through Aanan and on into Dumfries for lunch. After lunch we went out on the A76, although we did detour off for a while and went along some quiet lanes which basically ran parallel to the main road. In Sanquhar, we are staying at Newark Farm….

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E2E Day 13 – Windermere to Carlisle

E2E Day 13 – Windermere to Carlisle

E2E Day 13. We are in to the second half of our End-to-End now and today was our last day in England. And what a lovely day it was. Upon leaving Windermere YHA we headed up the Kirkstone Pass. Their had been talk the previous evening of how ‘horrendous’ this climb was. Frankly however this proved false. Maybe we are seeing that we are now much stronger riders, maybe we treated it with respect but the 5 mile pass proved…

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