DAY 0 Some facts you might not know about our trip

·        The cycling record is 1 day and 20 hours set in 2001

·        In 1882 two policemen did it on penny farthings in 14 days

·        We will take 22 days (well, they didn’t have traffic lights in 1882!)

·        A Phantom jet fighter plane did it in 46 minutes 44 seconds

·        We expect to cover about 1,050 miles.

·        Our chosen route involves climbs totalling 14000m in height. To put that into context, Mount Everest is 8848m high.

·        We will be staying in a combination of Travelodge’s, Premier Inns and Youth Hostels. (One person was relieved to hear to hear that Youth Hostels now have licenced bars)

·        Other people have done it on a turbo charged JCB digger, on a skateboard, wheelchair and a motorised bath tub. Someone even ‘posted’ himself by first class mail.

·        We will be taking a total of six ferries:

         Padstow Ferry across the River Camel in Cornwall

         Isle of Arran from Ardrossan in Ayrshire

         Kintyre from Lochranza on Arran

         Corran Ferry across Loch Linnhe

         Camusagnaul Ferry to Fort William

         Cromarty to Nigg across Nigg Bay in the Highlands

·        If you have the unfortunate experience of bumping into Alastair on the trip, be warned he will be wearing lycra


Alastair might be smiling now, but the hills of Devon &
 Cornwall will soon wipe that smile off his face........
(Dear Blog Reader, it is too soon on this blog to show him in his lycra)

     

           More happy, smiley people......for now!