Another day and another 95 miles... Due to the A7 being closed we were forced to take a diversion along a minor contry road which took us through some stunning scenery and resulted in this being the most enjoyable mornings cycling so far on the trip. We soon covered 30 miles.
Headed up north via Hawick (pronounced Hoyk), then Galashields and finally into Old Reekie - Edinburgh. We decided to continue as far as we could get today so headed out of Edinburgh towards the Forth Road bridge. Navigating through the rush hour traffic on a bike is NOT recommended but an incident with a Yellow Taxi who didnt like having to wait for a bike on a roundabout and a transit man who forgot they had a trailer and blocked our path, fortunately no one was hurt - scottish drivers are holding the status of the worst drivers encountered so far.
It didnt help that we didnt have a map of Edinburgh and Paul was waiting for us on the otherside of the bridge - asked a few locals the way and recieved interesting comments such as "Its a long long way to the bridge from here" "follow us" "its that way - but you cant take your bikes"
We eventually made it to the bridge and enjoyed the stunning views as we road across.
Now back with out hosts for the night -Dave and Rosie (& there 4 children) who have looked after us very well indeed!
Managed 35mph as top speed today, but average was just 13.5 miles an hour, but we did complete 95 miles today.
3 comments:
Well done guys in reaching bonny Scotland! Great to see you in sunny, I mean rainy Leyland - dont forget if you have any issues with your pedals breaking you can always use one of my homemade flapjacks as a replacement! Hello to the cyclin widows and children in Frinton xx
Hi Denise,
thanks for looking after the love of my life. Sorry we've not rung, it's pretty non-stop here! Lo is planning a 'scoot Lands end to JoG!' Char x
Hello Daddy, Da Da, dad dad dad.........
had just got the place tidy when we had a cycling widows and orphans support group meeting. Theraputic cups of tea, raspberry smoothies and some left overs in the fridge with the usual boiled to oblivion pasta.
Light relief while Monica took girls to post office, got some veg chopped and fried for the tea.This was followed by lots of noise from the pianists in competition with L on top volume. M on a maulk frenzie who then plastered me in yogurt and insisted I changed my t-shirt.Next support group planned down at the alottments friday.
Finally got everyone to bed by 9pm.
Have a good rest, enjoy your ride tommorrow only 3 days to go and it will all be over, you can come safely back to southern england, far away from the perils of Scotland.
Char xxx
Well done on reaching Edinburgh and completely changing your appearence. Isn't it the hilly bit to come next? Still, we've every confidence in you.
Looking forward to catching up with George at least in the second half of August.
Phil Schofield
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