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Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Innerleithen to Edinburgh

Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Innerleithen to Edinburgh

Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Our final day of our official Coast and Castles South tour (though some of us will have a couple more days after this when we return to Berwick via the Coast and Castles alternative route) brought yet more glorious sunshine. We climbed into the Moorfoot Hills. From the top of the hills there are some splendid views of Edinburgh. Lunch was taken by the roadside before we started entering the outlying urban areas of…

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Coast and Castles South itinerary

Coast and Castles South itinerary

Three months to go before our first cycling tour of 2013, our Coast and Castles South itinerary is taking shape. There will be seven of us cycling the tour – Andy P, Sarah, Andy S, Des, Neil, Debbie, and Tracey. All, apart from Tracey, have cycled tours together before. We welcome Tracey as the new member of the team. We are sure she will prove an excellent addition to our team and will have a great time with us. Sustrans…

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E2E Day 22 – Helmsdale to John o’Groats

E2E Day 22 – Helmsdale to John o’Groats

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…

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E2E Day 21 – Inverness to Helmsdale

E2E Day 21 – Inverness to Helmsdale

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…

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E2E Day 20 – Loch Ness to Inverness

E2E Day 20 – Loch Ness to Inverness

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…

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