10-10-16, 10:28 AM
All down to this high pressure centred over Scandinavia - looks like there'll be a few more days of it yet if anyone wants to scoot up there now. Hmmm, Scandinavia...now that'd be what I'd do if I had the energy; get a boat over to Norway for a few days there. I don't think there's much of Britain I haven't explored now, so next year I might have to do just that, and there's always Ireland. I had tinkered with the idea of doing another Europe trip this year, but in the end, I couldn't be bothered with the long ride to get to the more interesting places. Had a lot of aches and pains towards the end of each day's riding on this trip. Worth it though. The sense of remoteness in that open landscape is something even the Alps can't offer from what little I've seen of those mountains; Scotland truly is world class in the scenery stakes, even though it's mountains aren't on a world-beating scale.
It did get a bit chilly in places. At Dunnet Head and John O' Groats, the wind was biting hard. Took me a couple of hours to warm through again at the hotel in Thurso that evening. In more sheltered spots it was pretty warm though.
It did get a bit chilly in places. At Dunnet Head and John O' Groats, the wind was biting hard. Took me a couple of hours to warm through again at the hotel in Thurso that evening. In more sheltered spots it was pretty warm though.