Posts

Day 8 - Glentrool to Swindon (cradle of civilisation)

Image
Day 8 - Glentrool to Swindon Monday 16/05/2022 -------------------------------- We both slept well despite realising that we had pitched our tents right next to the road where there was a huge amount of military traffic. Not watched the news for a week, have things escalated? We made contact with my wife's cousin Kasia (who lives in Newton Stewart with her partner Marcin). They were kind enough to lay on coffee and a big breakfast for us. We could have chatted for longer (we didn't leave until almost 12.00), but we had to hit the road and get home as both of us are working tomorrow. The short ride to Newton Stewart was enjoyable with fun twisty roads and nice views of the national park. Unfortunately by the time we left the rain was pretty heavy and persistent. Konrad guided us on another nice road through Galloway Forest but the rain meant that we couldn't make better progress and we ended-up skipping one final pass we had planned to ride.  The main road to Dumfries was re
Post a Comment
Read more

Day 7 - Fionnphort (Mull) to Glentrool

Image
Day 7 - Fionnphort (Mull) to Glentrool Sunday 15/05/2022 -------------------------------- I slept pretty well and dozed-off again this morning (after getting up in the night), being woken-up by Konrad who informed me that we needed to get a move on if we were to make the boat to Oban at 9.30. Before traversing the island, we first made the stop at the harbour at Fionnphort to take a picture of the Monastery on Iona. Unfortunately we couldn't have crammed that in too! We re-traced some of yesterdays roads before hitting the slightly less challenging roads to Craignure. We are growing complacent with the views, but they really are stunning. We made good time and easily made it to the port for check-in. The boat took around an hour to get across. Quite a shock getting into Oban and seeing traffic and shops and people.... We filled-up with fuel and then popped into Lidl for some food and drink for tonight. We enjoyed the road down from Oban toward Campbeltown. Nice road surface and the
Post a Comment
Read more

Day 6 - Lochboisdale South Uist (Outer Hebrides) to Fionnphort (Mull)

Image
Day 6 - Lochboisdale - South Uist (Outer Hebrides) to Fionnphort Fidden Farm (Mull) Saturday 14/05/2022 ------------------------- We got up as planned at 4am. That was tough as our beds were comfy and we were warm and dry. We arrived at Lochboisdale as planned at 5am, just as the rain came in. That said, this was the last of the rain that we saw and we were basking in sunshine by the end of the day. The ferry from Lochboisdale to Mallaig took around 3.5hrs but was great as we managed to grab coffee and some much needed sleep (and we managed to top-up the charge on all our gadgets). We arrived in Mallaig nice and early and headed South on the faster sweeping roads but took the Arisaig scenic coastal route which was pretty. Everything is in bloom and looks lovely. We ended-up heading to Kilochan where we got a very empty ferry from a deserted ferry port. We had a bit of time so I re-adjusted Konrad's chain and we oiled both chains and checked Konrad's oil level. By this point i
Post a Comment
Read more