A good start along Loch Lochie – fairly flat going
and it’s a lovely little pond. We kept up a nice brisk pace and got a good bit
of mileage under our belts. I’d been looking forward to Loch Ness but in the
end it was a bit dull really and got more uppy-downy which I didn’t like much
either.
We decided to go via Inverness in order to miss a
very nasty hill that we felt our legs could do without, but we regretted it
because the A9 at Inverness is the worst bit of road we’ve been on for traffic
– incredibly fast (particularly over the bridge, which we realised too late we
shouldn’t have been on!) and we got beeped by almost everything that went past
us (one enormous timber lorry honked just as he went passed and almost knocked
us off our bikes).
Anyway, after a drawn out (as usual) last 10 miles
or so we arrived at the best B&B so far – with a sea view and run by a
lovely, friendly woman who recommended a nice pub where we had some good grub.
Tain is where they make Glenmorangie whisky, in fact we stayed on Morangie Road
– I wish we had more time to sample the delights…
We’re now within 100 miles of John O’Groats!!
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