Day 7 .....Are we there yet?

............nearly!

We stayed about 15 miles west of Pitlochry and the original plan was to drive back to the previous evenings end point ....... "You don't want to be doing that" said the lady at the lovely B&B, "if you jump straight on your bikes turn left towards Braemer, there's one decent climb then down hill into Inverness" ..... Sounds fair enough we all thought and off we went.
Turned left straight onto an uphill, which is never good first thing before your muscles have warmed up. This was only a small hill in comparison to the Glenshee mountain we then climbed ...... "A decent climb" was an understatement! We climbed into the ski resort above the ski lifts! The descent was fast but very cold and Matt looked funny in his 7 layers.

We then drove past Royal Balmoral and climbed a never ending hill to Tomintul. There were lots of beautiful views, however, the road that the B&B owner had sent us on had sent us at least 40 miles off route!!!

All we can say is its a good job we had the support car. We clamped on to get us back on route. We hopped back on the bikes and rode past Inverness and in Dornoch for our penultimate overnight stay.