Day 11 commenced with a fine fry up with fantastic views across a mirror like Loch Leven - this indicated no wind. Out on the road the northery wind found us soon enough and it was just like old times. Fort William saw a stop at a bike shop to stock up on food before hitting the back roads to Spean Bridge and the Commando memorial. This road was about the best surfaced one of the whole trip and hardly had any traffic on it at all. At the memorial an American couple asked us how far we were cycling and could not believe anyone would cycle the length of the country. We were to latter prove who far we could travel as their tour bus passed us four or five times during the day and they come over to us again at Fort Agustus amazed that we could get there in the same time as them - we'd had lunch however I'm not sure how many stops they'd made.For the next couple of hours the RAF had decided that flying as low as possible over us was good training, having a jet come up from below you makes some noise and catches you off guard.
A second wind wind kicked in as we road along the side of
Loch Ness however all the tourists and or the RAF had scared Ness off. Castle Urquhart provided a convenient place to take on board caffeine and power bars before the "highlight" of the day, a three quarters of a mile long hill at 15% for the duration. This took me back to Cornwall and Derek several different shades of red. The pay back was great though, the descent down towards Beauly and our overnight stop in Kitarlity was worth the pain."I'm having three other gentlemen for breakfast at seven thirty, that will be alright with you!" was the classic greeting from the land lady at the B&B - it was.
Stats for the day
Miles 78
Average speed 13
Max Speed 43
Pubs visited 2
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