DAY 5 – …AND THEN HOME
Not a touring day but worth mentioning just to tie things up. We were all up early and down at breakfast in the Hostel by around 8am, Jim and Marcus the first to leave to head home followed by Davie and Ross. We left Pat, Fiona, Catherine and Dougie at the train station while Ed and I wandered aimlessly round Inverness waiting for our later train before finding Tracey in a coffee/cycling shop where we chatted about… cycling, naturally.
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Ed had considered cycling home but took up the offer of Maddie’s train ticket back to Perth instead and we headed South, passing quickly back through all the places we had plodded North through over the previous 4 days pointing out roads we had been on and chatting about our thoughts for the future. The sun was shining and I wished I was back on my bike, though it was nice to be going home – to sleep, perchance NOT to dream about drunken old ladies, wailing cats, bog-snorkelling Scouts or a snoring Davie permanently clipped-in riding round in a circle with no brakes.
Just before Perth a couple of German students joined us and told me they had been travelling round Europe by train and were heading to Dover via York, France and then back to Germany – someone else just enjoying an adventure. I wonder where our next one will take us?