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North coast, July

3/8/2018

 
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Taking our usual break in July, we headed north for a change - bikes on the roof rack, off to the north coast and sometimes bleak but always beautiful Caithness. Stuart was persuaded to go the whole hog and spend a week under canvas; luckily we had great weather and campsites, and we greatly enjoyed barely being in a building for seven days!
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We camped at the Halladale Inn campsite in Melvich - which has an outstanding beach and serious amounts of birdlife and wildflowers. Stunning. 

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As we weren't carrying much in the way of kit on our bikes, we had some great day trips to Bettyhill, (plenty of hills - who said the north coast was flat?), Fortingard (where we met a Bon P customer?!) and around the locality of our campsite.
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The second half of the week we stayed at the hostel at the Kyle of Tongue, camping right on the water; lucky again that the midges weren't too plentiful this year. 
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Just about the only cloudy day was our cycle out to Cape Wrath, which we narrowly missed seeing as it had been fogbound all morning. Luckily it lifted in time for us to explore and sample the excellent chocolate brownies made by the lighthouse keeper's wife. 
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Nothing like cycling on roads where the only other traffic has four legs;)

PS: Stuart has been in court on Jury Duty these last two weeks since we returned, so we are still clearing framing backlog. Please bear with us! We hope to resume some form of normality once the Festival is over, but please come and see us if you have something you need done urgently and we'll see what we can do!

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