I had a delighted call from Mr Borg this morning - they were in Applecross having tootled over this rather nice road and had an absolute blast. Apparently he doesn't mind single-track roads now, not on his motorbike in any case. Next stop was due to be Ullapool.
Alas a text at teatime revealed things had not proceeded according to plan, and they were in Inverness. Later this evening he called to elucidate - he was having bike troubles and had had to stop a number of times to tinker with it, eventually having to push it into a garage. He and the bloke in the garage managed to get it going again but he didn't feel confident in crossing Mongolia heading into the remoter parts of Sutherland with it playing up so they'd made for Inverness, then headed down to Fort Augustus to a campsite.
They've decided to bail as Andrew's bike is also struggling a tad now and they're both knackered. But they've both had a great time and the trip is clearly labelled success from that point of view.
They're hoping to get home tomorrow, all being well, and he'll presumably update with pictures/stats/rants/road reviews himself.
Mileage = 279km or 173.3706 Mediaeval miles.
Running total distance = 279 + 210 + 349 = 838km or 520.7332 Renaissance miles.
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