The day dawns in Scotland’s highest village. We don’t have much on the cards today, other than crossing the border into England.
From the high starting point we use NCN 74 to get going with a steady descent and the absence of the wind allowing us to pick up more pace than we’ve managed all week. It doesn’t take long to reach our lunch stop at Ecclefechan at 40 miles where we were treated to some Eddie Cochrane over the village hall PA as they set up for an event.
Another 10miles from here and we are at Gretna, with England in sight we refill the bottles and plough on through to the border, Chunky nearly missing the sign in the excitement
The end stretch was pretty uneventful, rolling into Penrith after 84.1 miles. The lack of hills or head winds allowing us to achieve a 17.1 mph average. Our overnight stop at The Agricultural Hotel provides some serious portions:
A few moments later:
Time for a walk and an early night before we tackle Shap Fell in the morning.
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