Category: Land’s End to John o’ Groats
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Falkirk Wheel
Treacherous forecasting The weather forecast threw a curve ball this weekend, calling for rain both Saturday and Sunday, and thundershowers into the bargain. As it turned out, I could have safely biked on either day, just so long as I was home before about 4 in the afternoon on Sunday. But it was impossible to…
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Lejog in literature
Little did I expect when I picked up a graphic novel about the invention of the computer to find a strong parallel to my experience riding Land’s End to John o’ Groats. But there it is, in the source material included at the end of the book: Are you at Ashley? And is it still…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 13
Saturday, June 28 I asked FLJ for a photo of his triumphal entry into John o’ Groats, right on schedule on Day 13. He said he’d eaten the best cake of his life there while waiting for the taxi back to Inverness. Back to the top
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Lejog pictures and places: Tourist
Tourist From Day 9 through Day 13, I was playing tourist while Fearless Leader Joe continued on solo. He didn’t take many photos, and anyway, that’s his story to tell. I just wanted to include one image of Crask Inn, which FLJ would have passed on Day 12. I found it by tracing the route…
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Lejog pictures and places, Day 9
Monday, June 24 Monday morning dawned rainy. I’d had hours and hours of sleep and was eager to get a car and start chasing Fearless Leader Joe. I was soon on the road and apparently so was he, deep into Scotland. The weather forecast was bad and getting worse. When the deluge hit it was…
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Lejog pictures and places, Day 8
Sunday, June 23 Sunday morning, over a Full English breakfast, I let Fearless Leader Joe know that he’d be continuing solo. I was sidelined by saddle sores. We made a plan to continue to Penrith, where I would rent a car and continue to follow Joe up through Scotland. Unfortunately, we hadn’t counted on it’s…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 7
Saturday, June 22 Saturday — our planned day of rest — saw us on the road once more, making up lost time. We said goodbye to the canals here as we headed into the Lake District, but we did so in grand style. First we crossed the Lune Aqueduct, a canal on a bridge over…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 6
Friday, June 21 In the morning, with Kuroko behaving better than she had all trip thanks to Ben’s ministrations, we ate our breakfast standing in an Asda parking lot and then (after some faffing about) found our way back to the canals. Stoke-on-Trent (Approximate location) Barton Upon Irwell With daily shortfalls of our riding goals…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 5
Thursday, June 20 On the morning of Day 5 we started by fitting our panniers. I had new panniers (brought from London by FLJ’s brother) to replace the one I’d broken on the first day, and Fearless Leader Joe had a new bike to fit his panniers to. Staunton As we set out, my chain…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 4
Wednesday, June 19 Day 4 saw us at a rather slow start as we spent time sponging clay off the bikes from the previous day’s failed detour. But the skies, although grey, did not threaten rain, and we were on the road with sandwiches in our pockets earlier than we had left Hatherleigh the day…