While North Coast 500 Day 8 had been our longest and hilliest day, our North Coast 500 Day 9 route from Tongue to Melvich today would be considerably shorter – and hopefully with less climbing. That didn’t mean it wasn’t going to be challenging! We left Tigh-Nan-Ubhal Guest House and Tongue and joined the A836. This was also part of NCN EV12. We had previously cycled most of today’s route, though in the opposite direction, on the first day of…
The wind had been gradually building up when we reached Kylesku at the end of North Coast 500 Day 7. Then overnight, the wind had been blowing around the lodge rattling everything that wasn’t fastened down. So, at the start of North Coast 500 Day 8, we were seriously wondering whether it would be safe to cycle. It was going to be our longest day of cycling too. Finally, we left Kylesku Lodges and headed down to Kylesku Bridge. We…
This North Coast 500 Itinerary outlines our autumn tour for 2023. Cycling the North Coast 500 route has been on Neil’s bucket list for a number of years. So, this being his milestone 60th year, we are going to tackle it. Described as ‘the ultimate cycling challenge’, the North Coast 500 is an iconic route circumnavigating the entire north coast of Scotland, from Inverness, across to the west coast and then around the west and north coasts, via Durness, over…
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…
We had arrived and enjoyed an enjoyable evening meal in John o’Groats the previous evening but now on JOGLE Day 1 the real cycling began. It was a cool grey and overcast morning as we headed down from the hotel to the start point. Ahead would like two weeks of cycling and over 900 miles. After the obligatory photo’s, there was no big fanfare (other than from Nic and Sarah), but soon we were on our way. We followed NCN Route 1 and…
