I know! I had to look at it several times to be sure what I was reading.

Rabbies tour van in The background is such irony!

This route looks like where we will walk the West Highland Way!

Great journal! Glad you had a great adventure and are now safely back home!

Well done on completing 120km in sun/rain and strong wind! Mission accomplished and a bottle of Ardbeg must have gone down well that night ;-)
I know a bit of wet and wind won't worry you, but I'm worried about your garmin - on day 6 your trace has a big high peak in the middle when you were on the ferry (or perhaps the red line on the map and the height chart don't line up?)!
Enjoy the rest of the trip!

So true!

We found out that there had been some kind of agriculture show that day.

Appropriate as you did say it was “a zoo”..;)

Look how clean it is! And, his shoe soles look like new ones ( or boots)?!

…and you’re just as brave. What a team!

Haggis! He’s a brave man….

Aaarrgh! Another nightmare flight story. Our past trips with packed bikes and bags have always led to a similar tale of mislaid stuff, or even worse damage of some sort to a bicycle. This is why we have switched to a store the bikes somewhere in Europe (we are in Canada) and travel only with carryon. So far it has worked out.

Great to have a successful first day done. Yesterday it maxed out at 41 degrees here. I wish we were there with you!

That’s why I had booked us on Lufthansa with a layover in Frankfurt. When they gave us the BA option, we had to take it as it was the only way to stay on track and not have to cancel several days of our trip. We were stunned, and overjoyed, when the missing bag appeared 2 hours later.

So we stopped flying British Air when 3 of 4 trips they lost 1-4 bags. Sorry you had a baggage problem again. Have a fun trip!