John O'Groats, United Kingdom

Well I am here in John O'Groats. Visiting Sheena and Jim at Strath-Halladale on the way up. Will start the TRUDGE at 10am in John O'Groats, at the starting line. Looking forward to seeing you all over the next 5 months and 1,200 miles. Thankyou to everone ...

... !  Thanks to the RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue team for the best party in a garage that I've ever been to! Getting to John O'Groats is a challenge in itself.  There is no direct bus from Inverness and the quickest route seems to involve a slow bus ...

en route to Orkney we stopped at Smoo Cave (smuga being a viking word for hiding, or hole), over millions of years the rain fall made cracks through the limestone rock and created a waterfall into an underground chamber that eventually flows out ...

... unusual for this place. When we got close to the north east corner of the map the land suddenly flattenned. The hostel at John O'Groats turned out to be a beautiful old Victorian house and the room was the best one yet. However the weather changed in ...