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!
