Monday, June 30, 2008

Along the north coast

On the road just after 9am on a lovely, sunny morning on day 12 of our adventure. The first 20 odd miles were up and down over spectacular, wild cliff scenery with sweeping views of the sea, mountains and distant Orkney islands. After we entered Caithness and passed Dounreay nuclear establishment, the land flattened out into fields of crops with big slabs of local stone edging the fields. Finally we swept down into Thurso - a surprisingly attractive place - and met up with my brother Paul's wife Elspeth's sister Cath's former university flatmate Carol, who I'd never met before! Carol was lovely and most helpfully offered to store our paniers in her car while we rode the 45 mile round trip to John O' Groats. Thanks Carol you saved us a lot of extra hard work!

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