Monday 1st October – distance travelled 103 miles
Didn’t have the best nights sleep and sore throat was much worse, definitely getting a cold 🙁
The weather forecast was for it to be dry until 2pm, so we decided to go out, as maybe the best it gets all week. Gavin did the driving as I wasn’t well – it was a quiet drive!
We decided to head east to some of the places I had looked up to visit, starting with the furthest away, Duncansby Head, and then heading back.
It was a long drive as the roads were almost all single carriageways with passing places, there were a lot of sheep along the route and some nice beaches with rough seas.
From the car park at Duncansby Head it was only a 10 minute walk across muddy grass until we saw the stacks, they were impressive despite the grey sky and mist.
After we had got back to the car and removed all our layers headed onto John O’Groats. Only planned to stay for a quick photo with the sign, as it was raining by then, but had taken longer than expected to get there so stopped for lunch. Both went for sandwiches ham and cheese for me roast beef for Gavin.
Once fed we started the long drive back to the house with a stop at Dunnet Head, it was raining quite hard by then but as the most northerly point on the mainland an essential stop.
We pulled into Scrabster but just took a few photos through the car window of the harbour and stopped at Tesco in Thurso for extra tissues and throat sweets.
A quick dinner of pasta and tomato sauce tonight, as been a long day and i’m feeling rubbish.