We’re in Conon Bridge, a small village 10 miles from Inverness. Yesterday was quite the ride. We were out in a big wind and rain storm for 7 hours as we came up and over the highlands. Fortunately the wind was behind us the whole time or we would not have made it. That’s when we discovered that our pannier covers are water resistant, but not waterproof. However, today was dry and most of our damp stuff has dried out.
The b&bs seem to be populated with fat blokes on motorcycles or retired fat blokes and their wives doing the grand tour by car. That doesn’t stop them providing gratuitous armchair advice – this is the route you should take, this is how long the journey should take, this is what you should wear. Thanks mate. Just don’t run us over while you’re fiddling with your in-car climate control.
We were thinking of you in all that wind and rain!