79 miles, 8750 feet in 6 hours 30 mins Plus pp 90 mins breaks. Great start to the day along the estuary North of Inverness. A minor road on which one car passed me in 30 mins.Then heavy rain for a couple of hours. Then another pleasant spell high above the Dornoch Forth. Great views and an exhilarating run down to lairg. Then phone packed up so no more photos. Then more rain for the final 21 miles. This was more or less dead straight gently rising up about 800 feet then an adrenalin rush down. That's the difference from Cornwall where the descents were hard work as they were so steep and the ascents were so much tougher. Here ascents not too shattering and downhill great. Warm welcome at the B&B in Altnaharra and phone now working but no signal. Breakfast tomorrow will have haggis and black pudding. A full Scottish breakfast is a full English breakfast plus one or more of black pudding, haggis, extra egg. 75 miles to go before back to normality, enjoying it so much that I will have to plan the next trip on return.
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