Today I crossed the Cairngorms. Big mountains. Few roads. It was a memorable 80 mile day of wind assisted cycling across some wild and challenging terrain. There were serious ups – and scary downs – before dropping to the upper reaches of the Don valley and a gentler, sunnier ride east across quiet, green pastures […]
Category: 06 Barra to Aberdeen
Barra, Hebrides to Aberdeen
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Maps 34, 35, 36
Fort Augustus sits at the bottom of Loch Ness and is where the Caledonian Canal climbs a flight of locks on its way towards Fort William. The locks form a centre piece to the main activity of the village, each one large enough to contain at least six sizeable vessels together as they journey up […]
Today was a long day. It began painfully early in the drizzle of South Uist when my alarm went off at 4.20am. Ouch. It was already light; but already wet on the road, too, as I made my way the 4 miles or so to the ferry in Lochboisdale. I was first on and found […]
I don’t mind admitting that I rather enjoyed myself in OS Map 31. It was worth all the effort it took to get here and I am a little sad to be leaving already. The weather helped a bit. It was a dry, breezy sort of day and the visibility was good. And I got […]