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Claire and Adrian's End-to-End
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I'm just back from having stepped out (we're in a ground floor room with French windows onto a terrace) into the cool, still night, with mist hanging over the river and the most spectacular starry night sky I've seen in a long time.

It's hard to believe that in a few hours it's going to be as nasty as the forecast says. That's the thing about weather forecasts these days: they trend to be right.

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Challenge Hurricane - MicWic Delta (Front half) - Burrows Ratracer
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It's been great reading about your end to end adventure (especially the sections on heavy farm machinery and a certain cuddly's fascination with the blue ones)! Seeing you in Inverness was great too - almost in my neighbourhood! Here's hoping the weather forecast is wrong or at least hope you get some tail wind assistance... For info it's 27 degrees and sunny out here on the Caspian Steppe so I'll make sure and get your quota of vitamin D today. One final thing - out here they serve beer in pint glasses with a straw (!) for the ladies! It's Effes, a Turkish larger brewed locally. Considering they desalinate all their fresh water it doesn't taste too bad. Bon journey and keep up the fabulous fundraising! Sxx
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We're on Eigg now, and it was looking astonishingly, gobsmackingly beatiful when we arrived in yesterday afternoon's sunshine.

Since we went to bed, the most tremendous storm has been raging outside, and it shows no sign of abating. We were supposed to move on to Rum tomorrow. That might not happen...

There's one pub. But it's three miles away.
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We made it!!!!

Fuller update later. Time now to get dry and dismantle the bikes.
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Many congratulations to you both! You deserve a couple of pints after all that - wait, haven't you been doing that every day??

It's a fantastic achievement and one you can always remember, without ever having to do it again.
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Drink fizz and relax, we'll done to you both
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Nice one.  It felt like I was with you all the way.  Tasted every drop, crumb and morsel.  Rest well!
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Congrats peeps! An unconventional adventure with time taken out for smelling the roses - sorry - drinking the pints and counting tractors thru some wonderful countryside, but without the manic pressure of most end-to-ends. Feet up, dry off and raise your glasses:-)
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HI Folks
fantastic achievement big up to the both of you fantastic daily blog too great reading   ClapClapClap.
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Congratulations Clap
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