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The day after (Friday) hotel breakfast times meant there wasn’t much of a lie-in and by 9.30 breakfast was done, I managed to tone down the volume a bit but not nearly enough considering there is no cycling today!
After a brief walk down by the harbor we all pilled into the A team van (see pic) and headed to the town of wick to drop Titley off at the train station and to have a spot of lunch. We didn’t expect much from Wick after reading the lonely planet description on route “Wick is more robust than rustic” a very diplomatic way of saying s***, and s*** it was. Found a nice local bakery for lunch though.
Pete Bell was on his usual form, the group spotting a greyhound type dog that had slightly shaggy long hair, most of us commented with the usual stuff like “he’s nice” or “that’s unusual” Not Pete however, he obviously didn’t approve came out with (in earshot of the owner) “Bloody horrible, looks like its been crossed with a goat! Classic Peter Bell.
In the afternoon we head back to John O’Groat for a wildlife boat tour around one of the small islands. The tour was great but there wasn’t much wildlife, seagull, some sort of duck and grey seals (at distance) was our lot.
Late afternoon consisted of power nap back at the hotel then out for dinner at the only other pub with 20 miles, the Castle Arms, turned out really nice!
We finished the night back at Seaview with beers and a selection of Whiskey, oh and some local drunk bloke commenting on our achievement with “You don’t look like a LEJOG cyclist” then promptly patting my belly for me. Ummm, maybe all those full English breakfasts and lunch time pork pies have taken their toll.
So that was it, LEJOG 2012 and Scotland mini break done, tomorrow we spend 12 hours in a van driving back to Manchester, despite the planned whiskey distillery stop, I still expect that isn’t going to make for a thrilling blog so this will be the last.
Thanks for reading, hope you both enjoyed it.
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Micaela Loved reading it! Well done to all of you for doing this humongous trek! I hope you all enjoyed it! Thanks for keeping us posted. Micaela