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…
E2E Day 20. Today an intrepid band of 8 set out on a scenic route to Inverness. We went back to Fort Augustus (about 9 miles) then round the other side of Loch Ness. This took us up a steep hill that seemed to go on forever! We stopped by Loch Tarff for a bit of a rest. There was then so more climbing but there were some great views from the summit. Lunch was at the Waterfall Cafe by…
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…
