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.

Monday, 21 May 2012

Laggan to Pitlochry

Woke up stiff as a board due to mattress with no padding. Ian cooked up a big pot of porridge and Jackie made toast from the free food store.

Night before - Couple of pints and dinner on the Eagle Barge Pub on the Macedonia canal.

Took Great Glenn bike track on west side of Loch Lochy and swung round to Spean Bridge.

Train to Rannoch and road to Pitlochry. Jack met us at Kinloch Rannoch, where we had tea and cakes.

Dinner with Jack at Pitlochry.

Lovely sunny day :-)

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  1. Hannah21 May 2012 at 15:52

    Haha Jack looks like he's gotten lost and just cycling past :P - looks like you've finally had some good weather - hope you've taken to opportunity to dry out the waterproofs :) xx

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