Ride all the OS mapsAnd so it begins! Early start today fuelled by our local Unst host Willie McLeod’s excellent cooked breakfast. We rode our bikes on a dry but windy morning out to Britain’s most north-westerly road head at Hermaness, where a boardwalk path leads over the hillside to emerge dramatically on the edge of sheer cliffs above […]
Well, it has begun. Or at least I have left home and travelled towards the far North! Three trains took us and our bikes to Aberdeen, via an overnight stop in Edinburgh, and now we are on the overnight ferry to Lerwick in Shetland. It suddenly feels more like a proper adventure. So far the […]
Today is Tuesday 3rd May. That means 3 more sleeps before I leave home and begin the journey up to the top of the Shetland Islands. I think everything is almost ready. On Friday, Jenni and I will take a train to Manchester – and then another longer one to Edinburgh – and we will […]