About our trip

We will catch the sleeper train to Inverness on Tuesday then another train to Achnasheen where we finished last May. We will then continue to roughly follow the Scottish coast down to Spean Bridge.

There are some good challenges along the way. Bealach Na Ba is a rather large mountain (pictured above)- our route appears to go straight over it. It is famous for being the highest hill climb in Britain, about 2600ft in 6 miles. Something to look forward to on Friday. Then on Saturday after 30 miles of cycling, we will be going off road for 10 miles, a very rough route of steep rocky climbs with about 14 fords to cross- largely not cycle-able.

We are taking our good friends Jacky and Ian along to enjoy all this, as an introduction to the joys of Scottish cycle touring.

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Day 3

Torridon to Applecross 35 miles

Refreshed after a good nights sleep and a bowl of porridge, we set off at about 10.30 wearing full waterproofs. There was fresh snow on the mountains, and a stiff cold wind blowing with rain falling. Luckily the wind was coming from the East and we were travelling west. We were soon facing the first of the days hills. It was a day of undulating road. We met a cyclist coming the other way on a Roberts Roughstuff, so passed some time engaging in cycle geek talk- including photo:


Onwards to our first and only tea stop of the day -after only 7 miles, but you can't miss the only tea room of the day! Especially not this one. Nanny's Shop


Highly recommended.




Grey wet cycling, but still a beautiful and enjoyable ride.



A cosy B&B with fire.




A fine fish dinner at Applecross Inn.

Sally
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2 comments:

  1. Margaret18 May 2012 at 04:36

    Am so enjoying following you all, and loving the spectacular scenery.

    Margaret xx

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  2. Hannah18 May 2012 at 13:21

    Love the roberts bikes get-together photo! xx

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