First of June 2009, that was me eventually on the road again! Yeah, like every trip, its been a bit difficult in the last few days before leaving, good bye to many people, many stuff to pack up and check (and re-check), come up with the whole idea of leaving a part of my life; but once on the road its been great!!
So basically my trip out of Dundee started by crossing the 2200m long Tay bridge, gateway to Fife, a nice hilly piece of country… I made my road to Cupar and then Glenrothe, switching from tiny backroads to bigger “straight lines” roads, it was nice and sunny, so sunny that I got damn sunburnt!!! My first British sunburn!
Then I went down to the Forth bridge but before crossing it I gave a go to the haggling in Rosyth port, trying to purchase a ferry ticket “on deck” cause the cabin top up the crossing fare of about 100£; but that was closed, so I just had to head off to Edinburgh…
After the bridge, cyclist HAVE to follow a single cycle track which is fairly well sign posted, but with a surfacing in a really poor condition… so that at some point my tent sticked out of my package and fell off, I dragged it the time necessary to stop (surprisingly the backpack that was on top of the tent didn’t fell!) . Seeing that a nice young lady called Mel stopped to check if I was all right and started a friendly chat, then showed me the way up to the city center. Her explanation to get to Portobello confused my, but it didn’t matter as I just made an extra bit of city visit.. In the end of the day I just arrived fine at my hosts place who was watching through the window with an other couchsurfer; it was just time to get the dinner! Nice and tasty, with a second round, then followed bye a nice chat until late. The night wasn’t as good as expected because of my burning arms and legs. But its OK!
Oh my god! My tent fell off my panniers too on the way back from Loch Lomond but I didn’t notice in time. So annoyed! (I think it fell off, possibly someone pinched it when I went into the shop for 2 mins…. )
So glad you told me to get a bike! But my arse is so sore!