DAY 2 - Golspie -> Foyers (74 miles)

So Day 2 was a day of 2 halfs!! We woke up and it looked pretty sunny-with not much wind. Had a wicked breakfast at the lovely Golf Links Hotel and after a few photos with the owners left at 9.10 am.

'Lovely owners of Golf Links who made us feel very welcome'

Took the coastal route to Dornoch to visit sis again and met a 'lovely/eccentric/mad/fruit cake/crazy/you are what you eat.....mmmm nuts' who gave us a massive lowdown on why Dornoch was the best place on the planet-saying it all like he was on E's. Madonna had her kids christened there and married next village on...dont you know! We do now!

'Hollie checks she put deodarant on-oops no she didnt!'

A quick stop at the Distillery refuels us (it was shut).

Then onto Invergordan where we had lunch and got yet more sponsor money (plus 20p off a little kiddy). Some guy at the bar (pissed at half 12) complimented Phil on has 'large balls' and rubbed his back which we can only presume meant 'you are brave'. Scots are funny!!

'This bridge was very 'hard'. hahaha '
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Then it went bad.........................it snowed and snowed and snowed!! and rained and winded and snowed a bit more.then pissed it donw, then hailed. Inverness bridge was pretty scary as was seriously windy and bleak! Eventually 10 miles from our stop at Foyers we stopped at Dores Inn (which looked shut) and had a million cups of tea and laid on the floor by their fire! This was to be the start of journey down Loch Ness. Then the excitement really began-we set off out the car park and a police car went past us- we thought mmmm!? Then a red car went past and did a sort of u-turn and went the other way. So we set off down towards Foyers and a police car pulled us over-i thought oh god what have we done and they asked if we'd seen a red car. We were like uuuuuuh no dont think so. Cycled off then about 2 minutes later Phil was like s**t I did see a red car so we paced it back up the road to the police and did our 'tandem investigators' bit and dobbed the car in. (wow exciting lol). prompt Hollie 'ID'ing every car that came near us after that!!

'Very friendly cows'................. not as good as sheep ;)

The road got darker and darker as we went along and the 10 miles felt like a million. We finally arrived at Foyers Bay House (which has a massive steep drive,,,,, which we walked) and had Dinner plus a swift glass of vino in front of the open fire!

Night......tomorrow onto Connel!