Day 2

Well today has been WET!

We woke at about 6am. Iam not sleeping enough :0)
With the porrige this morning we tried toast in the frying pan. Bobby was delighted with the results. Never knew a simple piece of toast with butter could excite a grown man so much.

Looking at the hils behind the camp site told us that the weather may not be so nice today, on a ppositive note the wind had swung round and would be slightly behind us :0)

As we were packing up a shower of rain blew through and we took cover in a tent till it passed.

We had to pack wet tents. :0(

Once on the road the true force of the wind became apparent. And when we were in to wind the cycleing became very hard burt when we turned away from the wind the hills did not seem so bad.

At 12 miles the rain started. Bobby asked if it rained in scotland and I said no it pours and at that moment the heavens really opened, just as we started the bid assent of the day.

Half way up and soaked we stopped for a moment and watched more that a dozen Aston Martins drive by, all German registered. It was a wonderfull site.

Once over the top we were treated to a 3 mile down hill towards Portree. The cycle seemed over very quickly. We stoppwd in Portree to pickup some milk for a brew and cycled yhe last mile up the hill to the camp site.

We put up the fly sheet of my tent and mmade lunch and a brew.
Tents and a shower later we headed back down to Portree fof some dinner. We nipped to the library where a lovley lady allowed us to use the computers to check the blog and publish comments.

After a lovley haggis pizza we watched the skye pipe band in the town square. Bobby realy is getting the full highland experience ;0)

We then looked around the lovley town and got some supplies and walked back up the hill.

And here I am. I have had to connect the the sites wifi to get this done and I only get an hour so here are the stats for the day.

Total distance : 25.31 miles ( a snip on yesterday)
Average speed : 10.3mph
Max speed : 27.3
Cycle time ; 2hrs 26mins
Total time : 3hrs
Wine gum count: 4
Rain type: mega heavy

Night night signing off

Al