Today’s miles 39, running total 684
Yesterday’s headwind was replaced by unremitting rain! From the Ayr Travelodge we had a speedy and thankfully flat 25 mile run to Ardrossan where we were booked on the 12.30 ferry to Brodick, on the Isle of Arran.
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| Maybe we should have flown up! |
The ferry was surprisingly big (reminiscent of a trip from Dover to Calais!).
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| Disembarked on Arran! |
We all thought the weather at Brodick looked like improving with the sun threatening to come out, but the to no avail.
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| Corrie: a pretty village on Arran |
However, our hostel for the night was on the other side of the island at Lochranza and involved a 200m climb in driving rain over a mountain pass.
Tommy had bought himself a Eye-Spy book on Scottish Nature at Brodick and was not disappointed when we arrived at the hostel. These are wild red deer, not tame ones! |
| They might be wild....but still cute! |
WOW! Fantastic news that you've finally landed in the bonnie land of Scotland (I'm soooo jealous!!) and also glad to see that CW & Mr F (that's Freddo btw!) have not been forgotten, but really.... did we need to have the bum report?!!! There is such a thing as too much information!!!! I'm raising a glass to you now and hoping that you are having one or two yourself (please note that I have manually spellchecked myself as I have managed to get half way down the bottle already and my typing is getting a little spp;ejaohyepwj!)Big hugs to Tommy (well done!) Hope all goes well tomorrow. Thinking of you all x
ReplyDeleteGood day today the scenery is stunning. FW & F now reside in a cosy carrier bag to avoid the deluge of wet stuff and sticky sweets that reside in Tommy's bag. Bums now accustomed so hopefully Alastair will not need to update further!
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