Day 9 - Longtown - New Lanark (Cumbria - Dumfries & Galloway - Lanarkshire)
June 1st 2008 Our highest average speed but lowest top speed tell today's story: Fairly flat, into a stiff breeze. In nine days of cycling, the wind has been behind us twice. Once on the way to Land's End from Penzance, and once on a roundabout.
We made it to Scotland though. We cycled along an old A road for miles, the majority of the traffic now on the adjacent motorway. The scenery was often obscured by t
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