A long trip but well worth it. Despite David jeopardising timing by developing a puncture coming home from work, we left Euston at 21:15 and were pleasantly suprised to have been greeted by ScotRails management, and upgraded to cattle class on the Orient Express.

A can or two of Caledonian Deuchars IPA smoothed the journey.

For a moment we thought we had arrived in Istanbul at 08:30 on Saturday 5th but were greeted by a local Scot named Martin.

Although Martin couldn’t carry our luggage, He was more than accomodating in loading our bikes to his four wheeled Chariot named Zafira, He drove like a demon to a local burger bar where we replenished our malnourished stomachs with cheese and bacon burgers. This lasted approximately forty minutes whereby we stopped for a further fill, a compliment of coffee and Scotch pies. £5.68 for 4 coffees and 4 scotch pies, Starbucks eat your heart out!

On arrival, after the mandatory snaps by the signpost, erecting our temporary homestead, etc. we departed to the local hostelry to sample their culinary fare, along with 3 pints of Stella, 5 pints of Tennents Ember and a pint of Murphy’s.

Carbo loading completed, we stocked up with further nutritional supplies, like cut price shortbread, and chocolate eclairs. We are now going to plan tomorrows drinking… I mean journey… our provisional plan is to wake early and get as many miles in the bag as possible. So what do you reakon we’ll manage, answers on the comments section please.