LEJOG D16

Well, we were all I think relieved to get to the pickup point this afternoon, put our bikes in the shed and go into the pub to have a coffee,  beer, hot chocolate, whatever took our fancy .. and wait for the bus to take us to the hotel. The headwind over the last few miles did pretty well everyone in. With the prospect of  more tomorrow we were glad to stop today.

The morning had started out well with very little rain, if any. More wonderful landscapes.

The miles went by happily and we made the tea stop in Perth with time to plan a slight detour to have a look at the Scone Palace, where the Kings of Scotland had been crowned.  Tried to use our National Trust membership to get in to no avail, this is not part of the National Trust. I am not sure that we really had tice for a good look round anyway so on we went.

To Blairgowrie for lunch, checking out the recommended eating spot and rejecting it in favor of a local sandwich bar and a seat in the park. On leaving that town we came across a roadside stall selling g berries at the farm gate so stopped to buy a pun net of raspberries.   They were delicious and I managed to carry half of them inside my vest to share and finish off at the end of the ride. I was concerned that they might have got a bit knocked around, but I need not have worried. The uphill and the headwind meant that I did not go so fast as to put them at risk.

Saw another hare today, just one, bounding across a field and looked up at one point to see a flash of red disappearing at the edge of the road.  That was a red squirrel, said Lauren who got a much better view of it. Red squirrels are no longer common so was good to see one alive. Sadly I have seen many dead hedgehogs and one dead badger in the road.

The funniest thing  today was a  circle of stones that we rode through as the road has been built through the middle.  No druids in sight even if it is the summer solstice.