Saturday 30th March. To Edinburgh

22 miles into Edinburgh, over the Forth Road Bridge, which now only takes bikes, buses and taxi's. We have seen no other touring cyclists on the entire trip. Until today we hardly saw any cyclists at all, but today is Saturday and the sun is out, so the cycle path into the city was busy.
      We cycled up to and around The Meadows, checked out the excellent Edinburgh Cycling Co-operative, had a picnic in the park, and are now enjoying a well deserved  pint of Guinness in the Greyfriers Bobbies pub.
    Keith gets the train home tomorrow: he has lost, gloves and a hat but has managed to keep his toothbrush-the spare one of  wee Neil 's which he was given at Christmas after losing his own on the way to Barnstaple.


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  1. UnknownMarch 30, 2019 at 1:15 PM

    Looks like you're going to have to start tying things onto Kieth .....Have you tried attaching his gloves to a string and down each sleeve ? 😁😁 ...A harder woman would make him cycle home and find his belongings !
    All the best !

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