DAY 6 - Thornhill -> Gilcrux (78 miles)

Back in England!

Yes finally after 5 1/2 days on the road we have now moved back into near home albeit another 500+ miles to go (we done 467 so far!)

We left Thornhill a bit late, Phil had to pick up a knee support and some Ibruprofen to paralyse his right knee plus we were still on the high about our room and the amazing breakfast we had. Lovely jubbly.

Back on the road we thought that it was going be just over 60 miles- bish bash bosh. Nope 78 and we rolled into Gilcrux at nearly 8. Racheal lives on a bloody hill which was a pain in the arse!

"Clouds dipping into the trees just outside Thornhill"

The weather this morning was rainy but feeling a lot more energetic in the morning we managed to get into Dumfries around 11ish for a coffee then the sun came out.

<-Think these cows need a paternity test or go on Jeremy Kyle, that calf blatently aint theirs!!

Hilarious place names along the bottom of Scotland, the other one being "T***hats" - would you wear one?

"Hollie doing her badass pose for when we return to the motherland, even though we are going to miss bonnie Scotland, ayeeeeeeeeee"

Once we got to Annan about 15 miles from Carlisle, we stopped for a tea and I saw Hol coming back with something wrapped up along with two teas (cup 400 + 401 by now) - cant believe I hadnt thought of getting one before- DEEP FRIED MARS BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! jesus that stuff is genius, Id easily get fat on that and be happy. That is a taste sensation. Anyway after that was wolfed down (that is 70p, giving it away......) we noticed that the panniers were a little bit "loose", I think 5 days of constant shaking had loosened all the bolts in the pannier rack and it was on its last legs- this werent good, so we managed to tighten up the bolts remaining and had to find a local hardware shop for the remaining screw. Guy I found didnt say much, just a usual Scottish grunt - 2 mins later it was good as new and we moved on to Carlisle in rush hour which turned out to be a bad idea- we have really started to appreciate what the countryside does, and taking the back roads is good even though a bit unpredictable.

Thought Rachaels was going to be a easy 10-12 miles from Carlisle, nah 20 miles on- 20 hills climbed completely knackered we arrived to a feast Racheal and her Mum had put on- jeez I couldnt stop eating!

Pretty tired now, so ill add the camera photos on in a sec.

Much love people, off to Lake District tomorrow !!!