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So Day 13 begun with a slight hangover and little later than usual as we had a mere 46 miles to cover today.
Breakfast was cereal and toast, no fried meat, our stomaches didn't no what was happening and after an hr of riding energy bars (aka Double Deckers) were being consumed.
For the 5th day running we set off in the bouncing rain aiming to cover the 46 miles in one session with lunch when we arrived in Tongue.
We managed it and to be honest it was a fairly uneventful journey, technically it was all A road, but the A roads up here are basically small single lane tracks, again the Scottish Sceanery was stunning.
The highlight of the ride had to be the cow road block we came across about half way, Titters (having done a bit of farming in his time) thought he was the man for the job when it came to clearing the road, confidently riding straight into the pack shouting odd farmer sayings such as "Come on girls, come on then" I wasn't sure if that was proper farmer speak or Rich practicing his chat up lines.
Anyway his confidence soon deteriorated when we realised they were not all cows and right in the middle was massive Bull. Needless to say, we then patiently waited until they cleared the road in their own time.
We arrived in our Tongue hostel around 3pm and banged the steak pie we bought on route straight in the oven for a late lunch.
By 4pm we had eaten and with no wifi or tv in the hostel we decided to head up to the village for a beer and a bottle of red to have with the spag Bol dinner we have planned.
Warb decided to stay at the hostel as his knee is pretty shot, so me and tittley set off in hunt of Alcohol.
As I write this I am sat in the pub and have just ordered another half after which we will head back to the hostel with our bottle of red!
Hopefully I might have some more interesting stuff to report later but I'm going to publish this blog now as I have Wifi, so that's it day 11, 46 miles, a warm up in relative terms, one more 60 mile day to go!
Possibly more updates to come later!
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