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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (8 of 8) The last day

The final day of the trip.  Our last breakfast was spent at The Welly Stop in Tyndrum opposite Pine Trees Campsite.  A cracking start to the day and no one could fault the tucker, it satiated the appetite,  setting us up well for the 180 mile ride down from rural Scotland to civilisation in Cumbria.  The ride got off to a scenic start although gradually the landscape became less interesting, flattening off to bland motorway.

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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (7 of 8) Everything’s going south

What had taken us six days on the trip so far took us the best part of a day to virtually match in a southbound direction.  Friday was a long, hard slog, the biggest riding stretch, which would pay dividends in avoiding two drawn out riding days.

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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (6 of 8) Onwards and upwards

Woke up to the sizzle of bacon and eggs; after a hearty breakfast and walk along the cliff edge, we rounded off what was a brilliant but surreal twenty-four hours.  I could not have orchestrated or foreseen such a random chain of events, it was a unique pleasure to be invited over and got the impression we were the first group to have done so when Ian asked Jay Kay.

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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (5 of 8) Oh look, it’s Jay Kay from Jamiroquai

It was refreshing to start the day with minimal midgies swarming around our faces.  We packed up in relative harmony as the morning started to unfold, said our warm farewells to our new friends and set off smiling into the day ahead.

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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (4 of 8) Are we in Africa?

After such a heady previous day on the bike, we woke up to a textbook scene in Scotland; fine, drizzly rain, a heavy mist under thick cloud and more midgies than you could shake a shitty stick at!  Go figure – we packed up in record time and buzzed off to the nearest breezy spot where I gently removed two dead midgies from Jason’s right eyeball.

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24-31 Aug 2013 – Our first two wheeled adventure: Scotland (3 of 8) Skye is not the limit

After leaving skies of soaring golden eagles above the buzzards, and red deer within the wilderness, I wondered if Skye would live up to Mull.  It did.  Faced with neck-craning mountains, Skye hit us in more dramatic ways than one.

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