JOGLE Day 3 thankfully began without any mishaps. The Morangie Hotel is a place which evokes former glory days but retains a certain charm. Leaving Tain we were quickly picked up NCN Route 1 again and followed the forest lanes towards Lamington. From here we headed towards Evanton. And then on to Ardullie. We then decided to change our original plan and stay in the hills and head for Dingwall. Doing this enabled us to look over Cromarty Bay. We…
JOGLE Day 2 began with a game of ‘lost + found’ when Sarah inadvertantly misplaced our room key. All six of our JOGLE team searched around the hostel for over half an hour for the missing key but to no avail. Eventually we reached the point where we had to leave, and just as we were about to do so Sarah found the key …in her trouser pocket. Numpty! It would be difficult to match that for a start to…
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…
