Team Dave

The sun has got his hat on hip hip hip hooray. Getting overfaced and fed up with full brekkies now – so fruit and yoghurt this morn, surely we can’t go far on that- we shall see. Looking out of the bedroom window the roadsign read John o Groats 55m, so that means we are 55m closer to home. At 9.30 we were on the road, the climbs were gentle allowing us to warm up. Riding thro beautiful villages Brora and Golspie, we called in for at Tain for a one hour dinner break. Crossing the Cromarty Firth(for those of you that listen to the shipping forecast). We were really ripping up the Tarmac today, calling in on Inverness to top up on food. We had covered 70miles at an average of 15.9mph, with luggage that’s not bad. I made the reservation at the YHA at Aviemore. It was time to start to take it a little easier with Pricer feeling a little rough and I had a muscle strain. We had to climb the Slochd summit at 406m. Eventually joining the sustrans route no7, over the summit we were greeted by snow covered mountains. The sun was going down and it was getting chilly so we had to get moving. It is still upsetting to see the litter everywhere – even in the most remote parts of our beautiful island. I think it must locals because visitors would not do it. Whilst on this trip I now have an idea what it must have been like to around in the old days. I have been shaving with palmolive classic shave cream out of a tube and a single blade razor, about as sharp as a masons chisel and tends to rip rather than cut. Pricer was lucky enough to let those nasty north winds to blow his whiskers off for him, at least those winds were sharper than my chisel. Every pedal stroke takes us closer to home now. See you all soon. X

Time 6:48:04
Dst 100.71