It’s Hot and largely flat !

"What a great cycle" said H half way through the days ride !

"Is it the scenery" I replied ?

"No" said Kev."

"Is it the weather then" ? "

"No" said Kev.

"Was it the bloody mountains" I replied now getting a little exasperated ?

"No" again said Kev !

"Well what the bloody hell is it then that's made the day so bloody great".?

"There have been bugger all hills"Henley finally replied satisfying myself that H had indeed finally found his Nirvana !

We got thrown out of our Air BNB by 9am (not bad when you can't get in till 6 and get slugged 105 pounds for a room that includes only continental breakfast) stocked up at the local shop and hit the road on an expected scorcher of a Scottish day - 25c !

Our route on a mainly single track road to Kinlochwe was pretty featureless other than an occasional Loch and / or stark looking hill.

With another late check in to be had at Big Sands we killed some time having an early lunch at Kinlochwe marvelling at the hundreds of motorcycles that thundered by obviously inspired by the Scotland 500 promos that have turned this area into a sort of Route 66

30 more kms on mainly main roads deposited us in lovely looking Gairloch where we again killed time. I took on coffee and cake while H worked on turning himself into a lobster once more sitting in the sun on this warm afternoon

Finally we loaded up with groceries and made our way 7km out of town passing beautiful late afternoon seaside scenery to Big Sands a sort of village with a sort of numbering system that made no sense at all !

After scouring various houses we finally located our small but charming cabin with eating facilities and 2 complimentary cold pale ales which we both savoured while sitting outside in the cooling evening.

With some hard yards done over that past few days it's nice to be able to finally chill !

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