Posts made in September, 2021

The Last Leg

Posted by on 23, Sep 2021 in 2021 - Edinburgh to JOG, Tilly the Tandem, UK | 1 comment

The Last Leg

Ferry to Cromarty Top of hill overlooking Loch Ness No sign of Nessie! Castle Stalker The Jacobite Too scarey to watch! The BenBit of a rough ride… The Falkirk Canal tunnelFarewell Bonnie Scotland We left Portmohomack and began our cross country trip to Oban via Loch Ness with a tail wind on a msity morning bound for Inverness. Our ferry at Cromarty was a 2 car affair and you could only just see the oil rigs and wind turbine ships moored in the bay shrouded in mist. A quick stop for a coffee and delicious Whisky fruit cake set us up for a very easy cycle to Inverness where we arrived,...

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Where’s the station…

Posted by on 19, Sep 2021 in 2021 - Edinburgh to JOG, Tilly the Tandem, UK | 1 comment

Where’s the station…

Getting home from JOG with a tandem isn’t easy. Most cycle tourers head to the nearest station and hop on a train which is obviously what we’re doing. The difference between most cycle tourers and us is they have single bikes and we have Tilly the Tandem. So whilst their nearest station is 25km away, ours is 450km away in Oban or even Edinburgh. So having finished the tour we have to start a new one to get to the station, not that we mind, we’re heading off to some of the most remote areas in Scotland followed by searching for the Loch Ness Monster as we do yet another...

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Flagged down by the Old Bill..

Posted by on 8, Sep 2021 in 2021 - Edinburgh to JOG, Tilly the Tandem, UK | 1 comment

Flagged down by the Old Bill..

Leaving Ullapool we joined the dreaded NC500 – the North Coast 500 – a touring route full of motorhomes, motorbikes and cars. We’d not been looking forward to this bit at all. We’ve read nightmares about the traffic and even met a coach driver who said his company no longer do tours along it as the coach gets stuck on the single track sections as people park in the passing places. Anyway, it wasn’t as busy as we’d expected but was pretty hilly as compensation! Fortunately, leaving Ullapool, we turned off the road after 25km and headed inland to cross...

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