Many Rivers to Cross
Day 2
9 hours 14 minutes, 81.89 miles, 5087 calories
Cumulative 17 hours 9 minutes; 155.39 minutes; 9572 calories
Started the day with a bowl of hot porridge and eggs and bacon, the owner took the mick out of me for not having milk in mine.
Got on our bikes, and started towards to Golspie, 16 miles away. Should have taken us 90 minutes ended up taking us nearly 3 hours. The journey was gruelling and the wind unrelenting. We had allsorts of weather today, sun light rain, heavy rain, breezes, heavy gales, everything but snow, but that is forecast for Monday. We did over 80 miles and were on the bike for over 9 hours. The last 10 mile took over 2 hours in the dark, climbing and climbing the hills. We eventually made the b&b, by Loch Ness, by 830pm, and were both looking forward to a nice hot bath before dinner. Fortunately when I booked I asked whether there was a bath before I confirmed the booking, otherwise we would stay somewhere else. Got to the room, and couldn’t see the bath. I called the owner and asked him where the bath was. He said it was in the room, still couldn’t see it, so I asked him to show me, he came up and showed me the bathroom, I said I could see that but not the bath. He said he didn’t have a bath only a bathroom, it was too late to argue, so we had to make do with a shower. There were two temperatures, freezing cold and scalding hot. Not what we wanted after our hellish ride. Dinner was good in the local pub, got a couple of tablets from the owner to help us on our journey. Ginger wine was 50p a glass, so I had plenty. Clocks go forward tonight, so early (ish) night ready for the morning.
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