E2E Day 22. Leaving Helmsdale Youth Hostel took us straight up a big long hill! Along the A9 and then onto the A99. After a while we turned off the main road and set off down some minor roads towards Watten where we had planned to have lunch. The scenery was a lot more bleak now. The was a section where there were sheep & lambs roaming around, so we had to be careful that they didn’t run across in…
E2E Day 21. Following a week of picture postcard scenery, today was back to reality. This was the longest day of our journey covering 73 miles. We set off over the Moray Firth. Then followed National Cycle Network paths through Bridgend to Tain where we had lunch. The afternoon proved a fairly relentless relentless slog straight up the busy A9. The scenery was quite nice but the lorries and headwind meant we couldn’treally enjoy it too much. We did manage…
Our End-to-End (LEJOG) Itinerary outlines our route. These are the various places where we intend staying overnight: Day 0 – Journey to Land’s End Travel down to Cornwall – fly from Manchester to Exeter, taxi from airport to rail station, then a train to Penzance.Collect our bikes and panniers from the cycle shop, then cycle over to Land’s End Youth Hostel.We will be joined by Ian, another member of SCCC, who will travel with us as far as Cheddar. Day…
