westcoaster
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So, you don't remember any of those horrible climbs on the B842? You must have had plenty of good beer.
Well I do now that you have reminded me but, as I have learned in my few years of touring - there will be hills. So I try not to get fixated on them and if I think too much about uphill climbs it would become too much a dominant memory. So when I think back on a tour then unless there was a particularly brutal climb or series of climbs (out of Ft. Augustus up the east side of Loch Ness or the west coast of Mull e.g.) then I tend to forget them, or at least not let the memory of them spoil the positive aspects of the tour.
We're just recently back from a Gretna to John O'Groats tour (7 X 60 miles/day) and while some of that was a stiff challenge, overall it was a joy. And we did have plenty of good beer.