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Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Wigtownshire » Minnigaff July 5th 2008

I discovered today that there are two Christie's. Christie B.C. (Before Coffee) is currently a morose, unenergised, tired and crabby person. Christie A.C. (After Coffee) is a chatty, happy, speed demon ... As much as I love the coffee we've been getting at Costa's (the mugs come with two handles, one either side because they're too big and heavy to lift with one hand) I think the caffeine is having an effect on Chrisite, and until we get our morning hit, things aren't the cheeriest. The other problem this morning (other than the return of the overcast skies and ever present headwinds and rain) was that Christie, barely slept all night (for the second night in a row) and woke with a headache and runny nose. Suffice to say that the undulations which yesterday were ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Wigtownshire » Minnigaff July 4th 2008

We set off today with muted enthusiasm. OK we were both pretty tuckered out. First stop was a bike shop down the road where we picked up another new inner tube for Christie's bike, then spent 30 minutes changing her tyre. We didn't get 2 miles down the road before I noticed Christie was already three or four hundred metres behind me. I stopped and waited, and her explanation was that her head just wasn't in it today, she was ready to stop already. We perservered, I told her it would be OK once we get into it, as it would be fairly flat today, but we then proceeded up one of the steepest little climbs we'd done to date. I was grateful Christie couldn't see the map, because the route proceeded to take us ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Wigtownshire » Minnigaff July 3rd 2008

For a long time people have been trying to prove or disprove God's existence. Well I've done it. If God existed then scotish flies wouldn't, because no benevolent, all-knowing and wise creator would EVER create those bloody things. I've never been so close insanity. I mean, midges, I can survive, leaches, nothing ... but those flies, shiver ... We woke at our (favourite) campsite this morning to the pungent smell of sewerage. yes, that great screeching machine next to us was a sewerage treatment plant or some such ... and it was leaking big time. God, it stank. So we packed up quickly, and cycled the three miles back into Ayr and encamped in a good coffee shop, ordered a mega-sized cafe latte and cappachino, and entombed ourselves in the free newspapers whilst enjoying the warm ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Wigtownshire » Minnigaff July 16th 2006

I was playing a bizarre game of Scrabble in a hostel in Norfolk with a guy from Northern Ireland, a woman from Northampton and a South African. None of them had ever played before and despite me repeating the rules countless times they thought they could they could spell words backwards and count the extra scores every time a new word was added. The Irishman's first word was whore and he attempted to put wog down as his second. But he did come up with one useful suggestion after I told him about my trip. "Why don't you go to Northern Ireland?" he said. So that's exactly what I'm doing. Cycling to Stranraer on Tuesday then I'll board a ferry to either Larne or Belfast, climb to the highest points in each of the province's six ... read more
Awful weather in the Scottish borders
Among the clouds on southern Scotland's highest mountain




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