Our night in the B&B in Edzell was nothing less than delicious. The owners were over the top in their attentiveness, rinsing our bikes off, putting our shoes in to dry. Clothes hung up to dry, warm snug rooms.. everything the traveling cyclist could want. Our morning was the same. Lunches packed for us, bikes brought out and lined up, a full Scottish made to order breakfast including vegetarian. Why oh why would one want to leave?
But things needed to be finished and as cyclists know, you always just have that little bit more to make your goal and you just have to finish it ..today was the end of the road and it dawned bright and shiny. Getting so near the ocean and denser populations one would think that back country trails were limited but again we were off in the places and spaces of the quiet.
Eventually we came to more and more populated areas winding up and over the hillsides of the east coast of Scotland interacting with more roads, cars and daily life.
Villages would give way to farmer's fields and then the fields would give way to the people. The trails, single track, farmer's track, sheep track, jeep track, double track finally gave way to the paved..
Until we came into view of our goal, the ocean. The east coast of Scotland. We had made our goal. We would agree, it turned out to not really be what we wanted. It was great to have accomplished what we set out to do but we were done. We are cyclists and better would have been to have just kept on riding but the ocean and time made that impossible.
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| Entering Stonehaven |
Happy for our accomplishments and sad for the end of our great adventure we made our way through Stonehaven and down to the sea for the ceremonial tire in the water.
Fortunately it wasn't the end of the road and we rode a few hundred meters more to the end of Stonehaven harbour for celebration...
And then to the pub for more celebration..
And with the east coast of Scotland firmly under our feet we reached the end of our trip.
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