Day 1 - Wick to John O Groats to Castlehill

It's been an epic just to get to the starting line, 24 hours by air, 1500km by road, 4 hours by rail & 30km by bike to arrive & then depart John O Groats at 3.45pm on Saturday the 4th June.
The days tally of 55km saw us cycle along beautiful country lanes in surprising good weather along the north Scotland coast to castle hill & our B & B for the evening.
Apart from a malfunctioning seat & being loaded like the spirit of Tasmania (on wheels) it was near enough to a prefect start to the 2000km bike ride.
PS met up with a group of British Legion cyclists 'Ride for heroes' who had just completed the End to End in a remarkable 7 days, averaging 200km per day!