Bike packing the Perimeter of Britain fundraising for Movember – Day 12

Morning. Morning. Good morning and welcome to day 12 of bike packing mainly the perimeter of Britain. Fundraising for Movember. Today I’m heading towards the island of Sky 180k I think some thousand of meters of elevation. It’s the first time in I think four days that the road has been dry. So, let’s hope that lasts. We have a new battle today. Welcome to day 12 of bike packing the perimeter of Britain fundraising for Movember. Now, for the first 90K of the day, I had Jake with me again and we got rolling out from Lock Mary heading to the aisle of sky. Now, I appreciate the aisle of sky is technically not part of Britain. This is an island off Britain, but I wanted to ride it as I’ve never been there before and it’s a place I’ve always wanted to visit and ride around. Uh, so that’s why I went there. You can get to the island of Sky via a bridge or via a ferry. The roads leading up to it were really stunning. We had a few punchy clims and then we stopped at a co-op. By this point, Jake had left and I saw this fluffy dog here. I wanted to go and stroke, but basically just stocked up on some food before heading into the sky. The way that I was getting there was via the bridge, which you can see here in the distance, which you can cycle over on a cycle lane, which runs on the left hand side of the bridge. You go over the bridge, it’s actually quite a climb, and then you’re on the island. And for some reason, the moment you get onto the aisle of sky, the drivers just become really, really dangerous. So, I was trying to find any detours to get off the main roads like this gravel track, just trying to find something safer. In the 50 odd kilometers that I rode on the Isis of Sky, there was probably 20 or 30 very, very dangerously close passes. And it meant that I just pulled the pin. I wasn’t feeling safe. I wasn’t feeling good about it. And to be honest, I was quite scared.