We arrived in John o' Groats about an hour ago. We came direct from Thurso as early as possible before the wind got its strength up. It is a beautiful sunny day here with fluffy clouds in a blue sky. It is pretty chilly out of the sun. We are off to Wick when we have had a coffee. Drew says: The above was written at about 12:15 - so we arrived at 11:15. The total mileage from Land's End was 1101 miles. We were feeling very much fitter today after a good night...

Drew says: Yesterday's ride obviously drained us more than we thought as today has been a struggle. There had been some overnight rain which was stopping as we left our B&B for a short detour down the hill to take a look at old haunts around the youth hostel and the causeway over the Kyle of Tongue. The sky was blue and the sun was shining but the wind - a headwind again - was still icy cold. I remember on my early visits in the 1960s and early 1970s, befo...

David says: No matter when we wake up and have breakfast we never manage to get on the road before 9:30am. This has been the first day that we set out without a single proposed end point. Today, depending on how we felt, we could have headed for Laxford Bridge in readiness for a trip to Cape Wrath. By lunchtime we had decided against this - I have already been to the Cape by tandem and Drew agreed that a more sedate approach to John O'Groats over several days w...

Drew says: It rained heavily overnight and the temperature had dropped a lot since yesterday. Breakfast was a DIY affair with toast, tea and cereal provided by the hostel management. It was still raining steadily as we set off from Fort Augustus on the Southern Loch Ness road. We were immediately into a steep five and a quarter mile climb of around 1200ft. Part of the way up we overtook a bedraggled lone cyclist who was walking up pushing his bike and swearin...

Drew says: This morning was overcast and quite cold. We travelled from Balcardine Northwards towards South Ballachulish using the Sustrans Route NCN78 and ordinary roads. NCN78 is very inconsistent. In places the surface is excellent and well graded and in others it is very poor. To be fair, I think we are looking at a work in progress - large sums of money are obviously being spent in creating paths on old railway lines - the end result should be superb. The N...