My ride today completed a seven map coast-to-coast that began what feels like ages ago in Map 39 on the misty Isle of Eigg. I was heading more or less due east all day, except for the first 5 miles when I decided on a whim to head due west instead. I felt I needed […]
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Map 43 again
It seems ages ago that I left Kirkton of Glenisla and made my way home for a very busy week of pre-arranged commitments and a couple of extra days of extreme heat avoidance; but here we go again! It took me all of yesterday afternoon to reach Edinburgh, where I spent the night, and then […]
I left the crowds of Pitlochry behind and took the very quiet A924 uphill past Edradour Distillery, and northeast, and then east, and then southeast in an arc leading away from one world and into another – or so it felt. In my family we often play a game called “It’s a bit like”, especially […]
When you open out OS map 42, you see a very obvious way to cycle quietly across it, all the way from left to right in a horizontal line. It even deviates upwards to connect nicely with the slightly more northerly map 43, just where you need it near the right edge of the map. […]