We finished! - photo to prove we got to John O'Groats - so even if it was the sign man's day off and he had taken the sign with him, we know that those are the Orkneys in the background so we had made the complete end to end. (there are other issues here but I will leave that to some one else to explain!)9 days was relentless, but as we proved it was possible if at times painful, not something you would want to too often but occasionally its good to stretch the limits.
We all owe a very special note of thanks to Cathy, who was relentlessly cheerful when we were not, organised when we were falling apart at the seams and patient to a fault while we grumbled and groaned. And how did we repay this? We gave her the the day off to walk up Ben Nevis in the pouring rain with Clare, surely there can be no greater reward than aching limbs and being soaked to the skin? But seriously,and its a much abused phrase but it does ring true - we could not have done it with out you so very many thanks.
Things to remember?
Devon has as many hills as Cornwall, the Somerset flats are not nearly wide enough, cream teas can have too much cream, the Severn Bridge is longer than you think, the Welsh Marches - forgotten England - must go back again, Lancashire in the sun will stun even the most cynical, Shap is a piece of cake - wait till you get to Drumadochit, evening sun in Largs, brooding lochs and ferries in the wrong places, deep, deep Loch Awe, legs feel like tenderised meat and there is still 30 miles to go, can it rain any harder? sun, black clouds,heather on the Caledonian Canal; random contributions for H4H from the most un-expected quarters, how do you pronounce Drumandochit? the meal at Tain, who says its brutal beyond the Dornoch Bridge? the last miles and 3 extra hills, Cathy's grin - and patient wives. Very special memories
If non of this make sense we can spend hours explaining after a wee dram!
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