What an excellent day! We awoke to the usual cloudy skies and impeding rain. Breakfast was an excellent all-you-can-eat affair at our Premier Inn (which was really good too). Then we were off through an industrial estate and out over the Inverness estuary bridge and onto the Black Isle and along beautiful coast to Cromarty. Alas the ferry to Nigg, one mile away across the Cromarty Firth, had just broken down. Thankfully Barry and Pauline were there too, so we shipped us and the bikes over to the other side in the car (a big detour) and we faithfully started from the ferry ramp on the Nigg side.
We followed the A9 for a while, across Dornoch Firth Bridge (absolutely fantastic) and then took a detour over to Dornoch (beautiful) and saw a load of seals in Loch Fleet. All day the weather was generally good, the scenery fantastic and the cycling generally easy (apart from the last few miles when Hannah and I were very tired).
Helmsdale Youth Hostel is superb.
And so to bed... Last day tomorrow!
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