​Day 8: Is a celebration of a ride. After taking the tiny ferry onto the Cape Wrath peninsula, the cycle on off-road track to the Lighthouse and the end of the trail is just a great end to a magnificent journey that has taken you through the very heart of the Scottish Highlands.

Maybe next year…

In the morning it’s ~5hr ride to Lairg, passing the ferry port for Cape Wrath (bittersweet) and using some of the NC500’s A838 coast road before heading inland/east. We make good time on the road (I can use the aerobars for the 2nd time :D) so have lunch in a nice cafe in Lairg (Pier Cafe). We pack cakes for the train trip and it starts to rain for the first time in a few days. In Inverness we have a hotel and do a little bar crawl. Same again for Glasgow after some shenanigans changing at Perth with Scotland playing football on Saturday! This is the second time we’ve paid silly prices for hotels in Glasgow – the last time was during Commonwealth Games. Need to pay more attention to the Glasgow events listings…

Damn right you should be looking happy, you smashed it chick!

Lovely morning mist

Highland traffic

View of Loch Inchard from A838

Ben Hope from the south side? Near Loch Stack anyway

Scotland just keeps on giving…

Enjoying the ‘free speed’ on sealed roads

Loch More, looking at Aultanrynie

Malwinki is amazed at the size of this shroom. It’s massive!

Back at the Start, Kelvingrove

Fin.

Thanks to Rich and David and the members of Obscura Mondo Cycle Club that developed the An Turas Mor route and guides.

Thanks to everyone in Scotland that was super friendly and wonderfully helpful and hospitable during the trip.

What should we do next?