Day of two halves

Keswick to the last cafe in England, undertaken in decent dry, even sunny at times weather. Encountered the Hartside Pass on the way, a superb twisty road and stopped for coffee at the top, in the Hartside Cafe. Bikers and sports car owners seem to head here for a fry up before going up and down the hill as fast as they can.

All was good on the ride to the last cafe in England, where we had lunch but not long after leaving though, the weather turned, so Scotland greeted us with rain. To add to the misery, tomtom decided not to take the route I'd planned and we ended up well out of our way on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Grizzly's TT was showing different routes to mine too! I'm gonna have words with that girl!!

Avoiding Glasgow with a seemingly endless number of roundabouts and turns and as the gloom descended , we eventually pulled up outside our digs for the night, a castle that is the Loch Lomond Youth Hostel.

Dinner was taken in the hostel but as they don't serve alcohol, it was water all round. There was water all round outside too, as it continued to rain all evening. Welcome to Scotland. PISH!