Day 1 Home - Alston - Gretna Green - Glasgow - Loch Lomond - Connel
Day 2 Connel(nr Oban) - Fort William - Invergarry - Kyle of Lochalsh - Gairloch - Ullapool
Day 3 Ullapool - Ledmore - Durness - Thurso - John o' Groats - Dornoch
Day 4 Dornoch - Muir of Ord - Loch Ness - Spean Bridge - Aviemore - Balmoral - Braemar - Pitlochry
Day 5 Pitlochry - Crieff - Edinburgh - Jedburgh - Corbrige - Home
Day 1 We all met up for a final check/fill up and route decider.
This year we decided to go over the Pennines via Alston for our first stop.
Its the highest village in England
Our first night stop was at The Oyster Inn at Connel Bridge near Oban
With views over to the Isle of Mull
The hot smoked salmon chowder was especially good
Day 2 this took in Fort William, Kyle of Lochalsh, Plockton, Badachro, Gairloch.
You can just see Ben Nevis through the mist
I just had to take some more photos of Eilean Donan castle
and another......
This little sea fishing village is Plockton
A local jelly fish
Badachro
Finally arriving at The Arch Inn Ullapool
Well all this biking sure makes you thirsty
Day 3 Today we are going as far north as you can reach.
To Durness on the north west and John o' Groats on the north east.
The ferry had arrived overnight
Justed stopped off for a quick game of darts
That's the Orkney isles with Scapa flow to the right
This is the harbour at John o' Groats
and just to prove I made it there......
Day 4 Getting loaded up at our stop over in Dornoch
Just deciding which way to go today as the weather still looks like it will hold good for us.
We are just past Loch Ness and Fort Augustus and had to stop for a swing bridge.
This is Loch Laggan dam on the way to Aviemore
These two guys we stopped to talk to were from Serbia and had already been travelling for 25 days
Arriving at our hotel in Pitlochry
and a well earned meal at the local Indian restaurant
I guess this guy had too much Cobra beer !!!!!
and back to the hotel for a well earned rest
Day 5 Heading off back home and can't wait for next year
[/img]
