One small step

Someone once said 'A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step' and so we find ourselves here in Bettyhill 50 miles from John O' Groats with only 950 left to do.

It has been a really good day with mainly sunshine and only 1 brief shower. The cold wind persists and has been in our face all day.

Unfortunately no eating establishments seem to know about Monday or Tuesday up here so we never found anywhere for lunch. Although closed, the Strathy Inn took pity on us and made us coffee which, together with a bag of peanuts was our lunch.

We were passed by a group of soldiers doing JOGLE in just over a week. They were collecting for 'Help for heroes'. Despite the fact that they were on lightweight carbon fibre racers, were half our age and had 2 support vehicles carrying all their luggage we caught up with them again later but they soon sped off again.

Bettyhill has one of the most beautiful beaches we have ever seen (see picture) and an interesting museum about the Highland Clearances in 1820.

So far, our journey has taken us due west but tomorrow we start heading south at last. (Memo to self - take sandwiches!)

Peter