Island 7 - Arran, Scotland, 21-22 June 2014

With support team Mehrab and Willie

On a glorious  midsummer weekend I cycled quite a lot of Arran with this great support team, Mehrab and Willie. I was particularly thrilled to have Willie as he is the grandson of Mamie Martin, in whose name the support of girls' education in Malawi continues though the Mamie Martin Fund.

Back to the cycling.  We had a great up-and-down day on the Saturday.  The most memorable event was being overtaken up a hill by a (motorised) wheelchair. It was all downhill from there.

Willie left by the infamous String Road,  which Mehrab and I took the next day. It's bad but the view from the top is wonderful. After introducing Mehrab to Arran beer, I went onto Lochranza by a horrible hill into the wind. I collapsed exhausted into the lovely SYHA hostel there. Islay is next.