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Womans Hour

Gina was interviewed on Woman’s Hour today. You can hear her from about 40 minutes into the broadcast.

Listen here

As you may have gathered from Gina’s blog posts, she had trouble with her Garmin bike computers on a few days – particularly at the beginning of her ride. Particularly troublesome were days 9 & 12 where, looking at the data, the Garmin just didn’t record several miles of the journey (so, if you look at the actual Garmin recording, you’ll see a straight line covering the period of time where the Garmin wasn’t paying attention at all).

Day 28, to John O’Groats

Last night we stayed in Sandras Hostel in Thurso and Pascal turned up to ride the last stretch of Le-Jog so we did some pre-celebrating by having a curry at The Pride of Bengal.

Day 27, to Thurso

I could hear the wind howling around the hostel as soon as I woke, and it seemed alarmingly blustery. Of course, we were close to the sea. I now met with Jen Holden, who is about my age, and also a cyclist (although on mountain bikes, and she’s also a climber.) She moved from Lancashire to live here whilst in her seventies – and instantly began to learn Gaelic. I liked her immediately for her enthusiasm.

Day 26, to Bettyhill

Breakfast this morning was the winner, it was sensational! I enjoyed porridge, with heaps of fresh blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. Haggis was also on the menu as well as lashings of bacon, egg, mushrooms and tomatoes. In fact, the works.

Day 25, to Altnaharra

The typically Scottish hotel where I stayed last night was fun. Every time I stay at a nice place I think that it was the best. The day began warm and sunny and, having had a breakfast of porridge, scrambled egg, tomatoes and mushrooms, I set off along the still quite busy A836. After seven miles, at Lairg, it transformed into a single track lane which was rough. The weather became progressively colder, even feeling wintry, as I continued – but it was the most beautiful ride over the moors.

Day 24, to Invershin

I made a mistake yesterday in my blog. I thought that today would be an easy day – and it was perhaps my hardest yet. I think I must have been a day out – because tomorrow really is going to be an easy day!

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Day 23, to Inverness

This morning Paul set off in the car, and I followed on my bicycle (rather more slowly) down a sunlit lane. Intermittent showers, but still with plenty of sunshine, was the pattern for the day. At Fort Augustus I saw the impressive site of the road bridge swinging open to let the boats down the canal.

Day 22, to Invergarry

Glencoe hostel was utter heaven. I fuelled up for the day ahead on a breakfast of porridge (in great quantity) with spoonfuls of peanut butter in it, which I washed down with lots of lovely coffee.