As most of you already know we undertook the iconic cycle ride JOGLE (John O’Groats to Lands End) in June 2015 but this relates to the view from the van. Due to the fact that I broke two bones in my foot a few weeks before hand, it meant that I wouldn’t be able to cycle after all – a huge disappointment as it had been planned for over a year beforehand! As Nicholl would be driving a crew van,…
JOGLE Day 5 was the first of the two toughest days of the tour. It began with the now usual morning panic when we couldn’t open the side door of the support vehicle. Thankfully Neil had a brainwave and managed to sort everything out. We had planned to be on the road earlier than usual, and for once managed to achieve this. As I mentioned yesterday Pitlochary SYHA was up a hill, so the first bit of cycling we did was…
After the End-to-End you may be forgiven for thinking that that would be the end of our travels for 2012. And you would be wrong. So having been introduced to the wonders of cycling and cycle touring, and then walking, and in the near future camping (…and in fact the whole of the outdoors in general) we have also discovered how easy it is to visit new places and to enjoy those new experiences at such a reasonable cost. In…
