Land's End to John O'Groats

They’ve finished! They completed the journey yesterday evening,taking seventeen days in total. Full details to follow late tonight. Congratulations! Update: The final day involved strong winds, thankfully mostly in their favour. They reached 32 mph without pedalling at one point and were fighting against being pushed into ditches. They cycled 63.7 miles, bringing the full […]

To start, here’s a picture of the lovely shower facilities at last night’s camp site. Anyway, today was a significant improvement over the past week, with the rain holding off in the morning whilst they were packing up, and also on the evening when they were setting up. That’s the first time that’s happened since […]

We have a veritable cornucopia of pictures today, starting with a few more from the thirteenth day. This is a nice photo of their wild camp spot taken in the evening. And here’s Carol keeping her energy up with a healthy snack. And a strange, disembodied hand… They had heavy rain again all night and […]

Carol and Richard were subject to more torrential rain overnight on day eleven, which continued into the morning. They took a couple of pictures of them sheltering at a bus stop. Is it just me or is she looking way too happy, given the situation? Here’s Richard in a more fitting photo… They continued on […]

Better day today with some sun and less rain. They’re wild camping in a wood near Cumnock having camouflaged the bikes. They also saw buzzards, red squirrels and deer en route. 70 miles today, bringing the total up to 679.7 miles.

Rainy again today with showers and some torrential downpours and storms. They’ve crossed into Scotland and are at a camp site in Annan near Gretna Green. At least they managed to get a three course meal last night! They cycled 61 miles today; that’s 609.7 miles so far.

Another bad day. Quoting directly from a text message we received: “Torrential rain. Reached Grasmere. Soaked to skin. No camp. Yha wanted 50 quid. Yha letting us dry clothes and wild camp in woods. Tent saturated. Floods.” They covered 54 miles today. Let’s hope the weather improves for them soon. 548.7 miles so far.

They’ve gone through Liverpool, Warrington and Preston today in torrential rain. They’re wild camping at Garstang tonight, with their tent and gear soaked through. They covered 77.6 miles today, that’s 494.7 miles so far. Nearly half way!

Carol and Richard went over the Stiperstones early today and through Westbury, their nearest point to home. They then stopped at Knockin and sent us this priceless text message: “At knockin. Having a coffee in the knockin shop. Head wind again. And rich is drooling over a pristine mitsubishi gto ’92 twin turbo” They’re camping […]

Carol and Richard got off to a late start, with high winds and rain approaching.  There were strong head winds all day.  They reached Bridges Youth Hostel in the Long Mynd at around 9 pm having covered about 62 miles, finishing in torrential rain.  They have traveled 359.1 miles so far.