LEJOG day 13 (Peter)

Blazing sunshine, all day, and 70deg approx. We had to come all the way to Scotland to find it!

The team took different routes. Martin and Richard found an idyllic stretch of easy riding countryside near Lanark, while Stewart and Peter, directed by a well met cyclist, took a more urban route, which included a serious hill climb, before all meeting up for lunch, after a puncture apiece on each team.

We travelled country today that evokes the legendary radio football score announcer, James Alexander Gordon. Footballing towns such as Airdrie, Motherwell, Stenhousemuir, Alloa, Falkirk and Stirling are always on his weekly Saturday 5pm scoresheet.

In the pm Stewart and Peter headed on through Stirling to Bridge of Allan (for a day of about 61 miles) while Martin and Richard, intrigued by Geraldine’s earlier report of the excitement at the Falkirk wheel (www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk) , diverted in that direction………only to find that the last wheel had been closed one minute before their arrival. But as they decided that they didn’t really like wheels anyway, not too much harm was done!

Tomorrow is a light morning which includes a tour of Stirling castle and lunch with an old friend of Stewart’s, who is Scotland’s only Russian Orthodox priest.