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Scotland - the last post
I’m heading home tomorrow after a week in Scotland. I really enjoyed my time, it can be summed up as follows. Friendly people. Incredibly beautiful scenery. Great roads. Wonderfully considerate drivers. A bit windy. Agressive midges. If you’ve been reading my posts this will come as no surprise. If you…
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Scotish beauty day 7 and 8
I’ve combined two days in this post. Thursday’s weather forecast promised rain in the afternoon. So I set out on a short loop to be back for lunch time. I’d have been finished earlier if I didn’t stop so often to take pictures. I vowed to just press on and…
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Scotish beauty day 6
Another ride location ticked off. Whitelee windfarm. Again I drove there. For similar reasons to yesterday. It would have taken me over two hours each way, the weather was horrible first thing so I wouldn’t have left early. If things were different I would have thought about it. As it…
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Scotish beauty day 5
Today was a departure from the norm; I drove to the start of my ride. I usually like to keep life simple by using my bike for the whole route. Not having a car is also a consideration. Even when I did have one it’s just too much of a…
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Scotish beauty day 4
Out on my road bike this time.
Ayr Seafront - bandstand The working week has now started. What difference did that make to the traffic and my impression of Scotish drivers? It’s was good so far. Well there were more drivers, but the consideration continues. The drivers here, with a…
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Scotish beauty day 3
A day off from riding. It continued to rain after yesterday’s ride. I woke to the sound of it hitting the roof. It stopped at about ten am. I had decided to abort and visit Edinburgh instead by then. On the list of sites to see was Arthur’s Seat, Holyrood…
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Scotish beauty day 2
It was supposed to be an easy day to recover from the long drive. I know I could have just not gone out. But that isn’t me. I planned a shorter route, just forty miles. To be precise I asked the Garmin app for a gravel route of around forty…
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Scotish beauty day 1
First of all I make no apologies for the number of posts I released recently. Despite the length of the journey or the poor weather I’m in good spirits because of my surroundings. I’m in Muirkirk, Scotland. After around twelve hours in the van to get here you might expect…
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Scotland - Day one
I’ll start by stating the obvious. It was a long drive. I did it in about ten hours, probably left my house too early. Although if had started this journey later I might not have stopped at the Devils Porridge Museum. I’ll let Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explain.
Some more…
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Van Life
As you’ll have read I had two holidays recently and traveled by hired van. Why a van? Previously I rode my bike or used a train, which are both great ways to travel. But they place restrictions on what I can carry and journey timing. As you’ll see above I…