Friday 21st July-Rest Day in Moffat

21 Jul

Friday 21st July-Rest Day in Moffat

Today is a rest day in Moffat which is quite a lovely town over the English border in Scotland.

I awoke early in the morning at 6.00am to watch the news (BBC) and get ready for an early morning walk around the town with Chris before breakfast

Seems I am used to waking early ahead of riding after 12 consecutive days!!!

The walk around town was interesting and Chris and I had a stop at the bakery opposite the hotel to get a "coffee scroll" ( called a Chelsea Bun here). The walk through the town out to the start of farmland was interesting and the houses here are largely made of local stone...mostly bluestone from what we saw...

We then had breakfast and undertook our "chores" which included cleaning bikes and oiling the chain and organizing washing...thank goodness the hotel has a cheap cleaning service.

After our chores we had another walk around the town and a coffee.

Sitting here in the hotel dining room doing my blog I am her with many others doing postcards and resting for the ride ahead to John O'Groats.

In looking at the Garmin reports so far it is interesting to report the following "stats"

- Kms travelled- 1005.4kms!!!

- 13,600 meters climbed

- Days on the road so far 12 days

All of this is some sort of record for me!!!

Just on another less selfish point...I am missing my family and am looking forward to seeing my new granddaughter ( Mykala) and of course Robyn my wife....

Looking forward to the ride ahead which could have some interesting weather.

Now here are a few photos

House on early morning walk...pretty hanging baskets