FINAL INFORMATION - ROUTE & THANKS

Afternoon blog readers.  Sorry no blog was done yesterday, but without our 1907 team we couldn't be ready for a 9 a.m. start!  We eventually got away in the morning at 11.45a.m. and arrived back in High Wycombe at 2.30 a.m. Saturday.  And we had a bit of a lie-in this morning.

Am now using my lovely home computer and can get some of the pictures off my phone.  Hence the  photo of being welcomed into John O'Groats.

Anyway, DETAILS OF THE ROUTE!  And to point out that only twice did 1907 have to get into bottom gear up hills - one of those being 13%.  What a girl!

Day 1 - 109 miles

Lands End - A30, A30 (stop in Redruth for bike ball bearings), A30 over Bodmin Moor, A30 Okehampton, A30 to Cheriton Bishop. STOP

Day 2 - 107 miles

White road into Exeter from campsite.  A30 out to Honiton. A303 to Kelsey Down, A350 to Melksham. STOP

Day 3 - 98 miles

A350 to Chippenham; A429 Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh, Halford.  B4455 Fosse Way; A423; A45 to Meridan.  STOP

Day 4 - 136 miles

B4102 and white road to Coundon Court.  Round Coventry back onto B4455; B4114 round Leicester;  A46 Newark-on-Trent; A1 Doncaster; A19 Snaith.  STOP

Day 5 - 107 miles

A19 York, Middlesborough, Wingate; A181 Durham.  STOP

Day 6 - 109 miles

A167 Chester-le-Street; A6127 Birtley; A1 Morpeth, Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dunbar.  STOP

Day 7 - 107 miles

A1 round Edinburgh; A90 over Forth Road Bridge; M90 motorway to A823; A9 Perth, Pitlochry.  STOP

Day 8 - 99 miles

A9 Aviemore, Inverness; A835 Dingwall.  STOP

Day 9 - 109 miles

A862; A9 Invergordon, Tain, Brora, Latheron; A99 Wick, John O'Groats.  STOP - OR WE'D HAVE BEEN IN THE SEA!

                                                          And we did drive carefully

                            
                                          Our very own rainbow on our yellow brick road!

What an adventure we all had and thanks for all the support of people, family and friends as we made our way through the country.  Particularly,  a very big thank you to Ian and Mary, and Steve and Gill, without whom the recreation of this 100 year old trip would never have happened; to Barry for all his support and publicity to other Singer enthusiasts at the very beginning of this venture and to anyone else I may have forgotten.

That's all folks!

AND SO TO BED.......

Sleep tight, trusty old steed.

Apparently, 1907 is a 'she' and Steve says 'she' is the only female that hasn't answered back on this trip!

CHARMING!

I'm off now, but will put a few route details up tomorrow.

Thanks for watching! xx

RECONSTRUCTION OF 1912 FAMILY PHOTO

(If only I could crop the photo it would be more authentic). The hotel has been derelict for some years, but is now being refurbished. We share the limelight with 21st century scaffolding, but grateful the building is still there 100 years on!

CELEBRATE!

Steve was drinking out of the bottle by the end of this.

STILL SMILING!

JOHN O'GROATS- yes I said JOHN O'GROATS

3 miles away I text my brother Frank who says we are bound to make it now - we could push 1907 from that distance! Too right! This photo shows us at the finish but to follow are many random photos that will please us, if not you all!

GETTING CLOSER - WE COULD PUSH 1907 FROM HERE

On my phone are some other counters marking distance to John O'Groats, but my ipad is too stupid to download them - too much power required! (I wonder if an ipad could crawl to John O'groats from Lands End in 100 years time - HA!).

We are now on the A99, by the way and have gone through Wick ...... Looking promising.