Monday 24 August 2009

Scotland!!


Welcome to Scotland. If the hills don't make your legs explode, the midges devour you alive or the rain wash your sorry little ass back over the border ('one's sorry little ass' as the Queen would say), maybe you'll find a a land of dark sea lochs, misty mountains, thick pine forest, lonely moors, stoic standing stones (try saying that fast) and forgotten back roads where you can ride for miles without seeing another soul.
Crossed the border from Carlisle 10 days ago, from Gretna Green headed west to Dumfries, once home to Robert Burns ( Scottish legend and composer of Auld Lang Syne), then a gradual north west course to Ardrossan on the Scottish coast.
Hopped on ferry across to Isle of Arran where I met my Dad who has joined me for a weeks cycling (he took numerous cycle trips around Scotland in his student days and is keen to relive the memories although with a slight upgrade to the 5 gear bone shaker of his youthful era).
From Arran we hopped across to Kintyre then on to the Isle of Mull where I've finally found a computer and internet connection that works!
Pics are below, in case anyone not aware, you can enlarge them by clicking...
Slight chroniclogical mix up with first two but running out of internet time to fix!
Passed the 1000 mile mark a couple of days ago, just a few hundred to go!!!

2 comments:

sam brightwell said...

looks awesome
makes me want to go to scotland

so are you gonna cycle all the way back home again too?

Will Newitt said...

hi sam,hope you're well. yeah it's pretty darn nice up here, have thought about riding home- definitly tempted