The day started off well. Vanessa (the Brazilian who'd checked us in) had been busy baking and all the residents were invited to help themselves to take a walnut cake on their journey today. So we did and very tasty it was too. This was a wonderful day of traffic free cycleways closely following the line of the busy A9. It also ran virtually parallel to the main railway line. The mountains were getting bigger so it was no surprise when a road sign informed us, 'Welcome to the Highlands,'. Cyclists were few and far between. We did meet a couple of female cyclists on the brow of a hill. We'd huffed and puffed up from one direction and they'd done the same the other way; in fact one of them was pushing her bike up the hill. We all stopped for a breather. They were doing lejog from north to south and didn't know where they were aiming for today. Unlike us, doing it the easy way, they were camping so could just keep going until either exhaustion set in or a wonde...
