The final part of our route can be found here.
An excellent nights sleep at The Sheiling B&B at Melvich followed by our final cooked breakfast of the trip sets us up for the final push of the ride.
The sun was shining to start the day but the breeze is still with us. We had been warned about the steep climb out of Melvich but the road afterwards was supposed to be 'undulating'. It did seem at times to be much more 'up' than down!
On through Thurso and towards John O'Groats.
Met a guy called Bob Jones who is currently cycling around the entire coastline of England, Scotland and Wales, some 6000 miles. Bob is raising money for the Stroke Association and the Meningitis Research Foundation. http://www.coastrider.org.uk/
Three and a half miles from the end we got hit with massive side wind and a hail storm which was nice!
Just before entering John O'Groats we cycled through the village of Dunnet which we thought was appropriate. Dunnet point is apparently the northern most mainland point of the UK.
We finally made it to John O'Groats - Success!
Many thanks to everyone who has been following our progress and supporting us and sending us text messages of encouragement.
For those of you who have kindly donated on the Just Giving page, a big thank you. We'll try to get round to all of you to say our thanks personally. We'll post some more photos up to the Gallery page when we get a decent WiFi connection just to prove we actually made it!
Just that 12 hour drive home now then...
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