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Day 8 July 21, 2025 Stats: 16 miles, AIS:1:33, Elev. 485 ft. Speed: 10.1mph Today we had a big commute to Islay (eye-la) island on the west coast of Scotland. It is part of an area called the inner Hebrides. We needed to leave the hotel about 8am for a long drive (2.5 hrs) toContinue reading “Islay Island… big commute”

Last Day in the Borders Countryside Day 7 July 20, 2025 Stats: 20 miles, AIS: 1:41, Elev. 537 ft., Speed: 12mph The three of us took a nice simple easy-peasy ride this morning following the River Tweed along the Scotland/England border. Up one side of the river passing into England then crossing the bridge backContinue reading “Cycling the River Tweed”

Day 6 July 19, 2025 Stats: 27 miles, AIS:2:44, Elev. 1554 ft, Speed 9.8mph Today Jim, Curt and I were on our own as Sandy is busy with Civic Week and the Kelso Pipe Band. He’s piping the horse parade out of town as they ride horses to another village for celebrations and they willContinue reading “Back in the Borders”

Day 5 July 18, 2025 Stats: 29 mi. AIS: 3:10, Elev. 790 ft. Speed: 9.1mph We were traveling in the van by 9am this morning to Berwick-Upon-Tweed, England. We needed to time our 15 mile ride from there to Holy Island to cross the causeway to the island when the tide was out. Today weContinue reading “Timing the tide to ride”

Day 4 July 17, 2025 Stats: 28 miles, AIS: 2:29 Elev. 1587 ft. Speed: 11.1mph We started our morning with breakfast at Sandy’s. He did some shopping early and came back with food for the week. My favorite was the Muesli (cereal)! The muesli cereal you can get in the states does not even compareContinue reading “Big Beautiful Borders…countryside ride”

Day 3 July 15, 2025 Isle of Aaran, Lochranza, ferry, drive, Kelso (on the east side of Scotland) Stats: 14,miles, AIS: 1:27, Elev. 836 ft, Speed: 9.9 mph We needed a much earlier start today to arrive at the ferry by 10:30am. The hostel had a simple continental breakfast… toast, cereal, yogurt, juice, coffee andContinue reading “From Isle of Aaran to Kelso”

Day 2 July 15. 2025 Isle of Aaran, Ayreshire Stats: 42 miles. AIS: 4:23 (Ass in saddle), Elev. 1814 ft. Avg speed: 9.4 mph The days are long in Scotland. Dawn is at 5am and sunset at 9:15pm. We woke up to sunshine but the forecast for today is some kind of rain all dayContinue reading “Scenic… and wet”

Day 1. July 14, 2025. About a 10 mile easy flat ride. It was a checkout ride to get our bike saddles the right height and make sure the shifting was working. The first order of business this morning was for Curt to reassemble his bicycle at the hotel. He just sat down (in hisContinue reading “Houston…. we have a problem”

Day 0 Train from London to Glasgow July 13, 2025 We caught the 8:50am train from London and arrived in Glasgow about 3pm. Sandy and Curt picked us up at the train station. We immediately went to the bicycle shop to pickup our bicycles. They were all ready for us. They look pretty nice withContinue reading “Headed to Glasgow….Scotland!”

MANCHESTER. Day 1 We arrived safely and in time in Manchester from Reykjavik.  Took an Uber to our hotel where we met Jim’s brother and sister (Tom, Annette).  Tom was going to the ELO concert that evening so we had the afternoon with Annette checking out a canal tour in the city. Not recommended… prettyContinue reading “A few days in England…3 cities”