Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Early start from Inverness saw us having breakfast at Aviemore. Then it was a great twisty ride round to Braemar for coffee and cake with my cousin Will before more great roads into Pitlochry. We saw a small herd of deer about 20m from the road at Glenshee. From Pitlochry it was down the A9 to Edinburgh where Gary and I said bye to Mark (who is pushing on further south tonight) and found our hostel in the centre of the city.

A misty start along the North coast to Thurso (Breakfast) and then onto John O Groats just as the sun came out. However this was short lived and we got rained on during the ride south to Inverness. We stopped for a coffee (just to use the stove we had been carrying) on route but good to get back to Inverness to dry out. More sun is due tomorrow.

Today was a great ride from Gairloch via Ullapool (Breakfast), Lochinver, Stoer Lighthouse and Durness. Some great unclassified and B roads along the coast (sometimes only a few metres from it). Bend after bend, blind downhill lefts followed by blind summits into tight rights, kept us on our toes all day.

Today was an amazing sun drenched ride from Inverness to Gairloch via Strathcarron, Applecross and Toridon. Even though we grabbed a can of fuel from Inverness, there was no need to use it as more petrol stations than expected. Great roads, great scenery and some pretty good cake.

Yesterday was spent trundling up the motorway to Glasgow where we spent the night. Today was an awesome ride from Glasgow to Inverness mainly on the A82 but a few detours down some of the smaller twisty roads. The weather (as you can see from the pictures is just fantastic) as we headed over Ranoch Moor and down into Glencoe.

It has been a mixed week mainly based around marking college assignments but with a few cycle rides in between and preparing the Tiger for a week on the road. I head up to Glasgow later today and then the tour of Scotland starts tomorrow. Hopefully I will be able to find some wifi and blog some pictures over the next week