Saturday 8th

The term sleeper train certainly didn't apply to me - didn't sleep a wink. Arrived at Inverness at 8.30 and decided to cycle down to the river and sit in the sunshine as we had to wait until 2 for our train to Wick. Grabbed some lunch at 12 and then back to the station to meet up with Gandhi's mate Beth and her two mates who had just completed LEJOG.; in 13 days; on bikes with only 18 gears. Oh and they decided to climb Ben Nevis just for shits and giggles. Still, they are all rather younger than us! Got on the train to Wick which takes over 4 hours. By Thurso we'd all had enough so jumped off and caught a minibus to the hostel in JOG - a good decision as it poured down when we arrived at Thurso. The hostel was 3 miles from JOG, so we cycled down to get some dinner. having seen the place, we all agreed that we'd made the right decision to start here, as there's not much to it and it's a long way back home.