Tuesday 26 April 2011

DAY 4: Epic!!!! Our monster day began with an amazing all-you-can-eat
continental breakfast in Kilmarnock Premier Inn. Let's just say that
the other hotel guests had to make do with milk and jam for their
breaky. The early part of the journey took us through the very
picturesque sights of north west Scotland, that we were so glad to see
the end of, we hammered the miles as a group and ended up on the
border in Gretna in no time. Group photo by the sign for England
ensued. In charge of navigation for the day was Ollie who obviously
had an affinity with Carlisle seeing as we spent far too long there,
clearly not lost. He paid for this mistake with an embarrassing
stationary flop at the lights. The whole group was in shock that it
wasn't infact Si, who had experienced 3 such falls previously. On
roughly 100 miles into the journey with Penrith behind us, the route
began to climb (pretty steeply) as we skirted the Lake District. The
long climb was rewarded however, with an awesome 15 mile stretch of
continuous downhill that took us straight into our destination,
Kendal. In the fading light/complete darkness this section was
obviously not done at an average of 40mph??? Approaching 10 o'clock,
the group then gorged on several dominoes pizzas in our hostel whilst
contemplating what an enormous day had just rolled by.

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