Friday France, Saturday England, today Scotland ! The Hendersons left France on Friday lunchtime and drove up from Bordeaux to St Malo getting a delayed ferry through the night across to Poole in Dorset and then I drove home to get 2 hrs sleep! Then for me, it was up at 10.00 to minibus it to Bristol airport and fly up to Inverness. And guess what? The flight was delayed! Finally arrived at John O'Groats at 1.00 am last night!
Today is day 0 of the ride, time to meet the drivers with our bikes, the film crew from Falmouth University, and stretch our legs out with a short ride to Dunnet Head Lighthouse - the most Northern point of the British mainland. The weather is great and it's really exciting to know we'll be heading off tomorrow on the first day of the ride, 120 miles from here to Inverness. We noticed quite a few hills on the road from the airport so it could be a tough first day!
The bikes are all unloaded, the vans packed with spare bikes, water and energy bars and wet weather gear is all ready for use. The weather looks fine for tomorrow but heavy rain is forecast for the next few days.
Just need to enjoy the sunshine while it lasts, have a beer or two and get some much needed sleep ready for tomorrow!!!
can't see you at the sign thingy, is that because u were taking the photo?
ReplyDeleteWe were just saying at dinner how much we all missed u how it felt so odd not having u with us.
Good luck with the ride.
xxxx