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.

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Day One

Well, we all managed to get to Tring station without a drenching, and then had the satisfaction of watching the rain pelt down from the train. We are now comfortably seated in the restaurant car on the Caledonian Sleeper train with bottles of wine, waiting for haggis, neeps and tatties.

We should be passing through Pitstone on the sleeper at about 21:50. Very strange when we set off from there by bike at 18:30. We arrive in Inverness tomorrow at about 8:00.
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  1. CG16 May 2012 at 02:08

    Was thinking of you all as you went through Edinburgh early this morning (well, in my sleep)! Hope you have a wonderful time on your adventure, hope the weather gods are good to you. Catriona x

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