DAY 5

Decided last night to treat ourselves to an extra hour in bed, since we'd covered over 140 miles that day.  Woke up around 7 o'clock this morning and left the hostel as one big team, instead of the girls staying in bed. lol.  We made our way out of Carlise and headed for the border, (THE NORTH, Edinburgh and Glasgow - what a sight that was.  That made us smile all the way to the best sight of the trip - WELCOME TO SCOTLAND !!!  we'd cycled the length of England and only had one country to go. lol.  We stopped at the border for a photo opportunity and sent a txt to everyone in our phones to pass on the news.  After that spirits were high as usual, and we made our way towards Lockerbie, when we arrived we stopped for some breakfast, scrambled egg rolls, which were very nice, after some warm drinks and even though it took some self convincing, we headed back into the rain.  

  After around 35 miles of cycling in heavy rain, we were soaked through and to make things better the steep climbs just kept coming, (welcome to Scotland) we thought.  As we have done through this whole cycle we just made jokes, laughed and trundled along,  until the rain finally stopped.  Think after a while the uncomfortable seat and general aches and pains in our legs, began to reduce our speed and felt as if we were not making up much ground, in the next town we decided to take another break and check the map to see how far we had to go and set of at a better speed for home, with about 20miles to go we were ready for a hot bath and a home cooked meal.  When we saw our first signs for falkirk we picked up speed again and split Martyn heading for Grangemouth and me for ma parents as i would rather leave from there than ma flat in the Town Centre, as i reached 1 mile to go the day got worse, i got a puncture, what a treat, i just dismounted took off ma shoes and walked the rest of the way drenched from head to toe in ma socks. lol  lets hope it's nice tomorrow....   Next stop INVERNESS!!!  total time on our bikes reaching over 40 hours, milage over 500. Luxury item today - water proof socks, although they do fill up after a while........