We all had a great meal last night in a pub in the middle of nowhere recomended by the receptionist at the Days Inn at Abington.

We met a bloke in this bar who is walking from JOG to Lands End, its all mad.

So an early start with the sun shining and a great road to follow with little traffic and great views we headed off towards Glasgow.
Pretty uneventfull morning saw us ride throught Strathaven them into East Kilbride, they dont have corners in East Kilbride, they have roundabouts. Support were tracking us all the way making sure we did not go wrong as we negotiated our way through our last major city before we head further north.

Needless to say we did take a wrong turning as we headed towards Paisley. We quickly got back on track and headed through Busby, where Doug had a shouting match with a woman who turned sharply in front of him. This almost ended in tears as Doug was insisting in turning round to throw his bike through her car window.

Big Al and Little T had gone off for lunch, so in a lay bye near Paisley we eat a combination of Scotch Pies, sandwiches and sausage rolls.

We had been warned of Paisley and its delights, but to see grown men drunk at 12.30 on a monday  morning was a shock, the place needs a health warning.

Weheaded up passed Galsgow airport and on to the Erskine Bridge, where Sara and Rob acted like tourists and took loads of pictures.
The bridge moves and squeeks, a bit like a mouse, and its high so Doug and Rob wasted no time in getting of the bridge for fear of it falling over. Sara being Ms cool happily took more pictures.

It was at this point or at least shortly after that the first falling over incident occured.
Having discoverd the cycle path to Loch lomond Sara decided to try and take another picture forgetting that she was cleated in on her right shoe and lost her balance, a shreek was followed by the sound of a bike hitting the ground, which was the folowed by Sara laughing her head off.

 Not exactly a cycling accident more of a Rob fall over thing.

Falling incident number 2 took place whilst Doug was explaining to Rob how the scottish education system would allow youngsters to get Jobs,and work for companies that they might even start themselves, only for Rob to come over the hill and be the merchant of doom, and close them down.

At this point, on a cycle track, Dougs front wheel embeded itself in a rut and doug had the first moving accident of the whole trip, well in cycling terms it was a nothing scrape as no lycra was lost. In fact if you have read the blog so far, it was  Doug was trying to take Rob down in revenge for the Testicle incident near Bristol, Rob however has this weird way of cycling, he stands upright and cycles just when he senses a bit of danger.

The trip to Loch Lomond was nothing short of stunning the cycle path runs alongside the Loch for almost all the lenght of the Loch providing David Bailey(Sara) with yet more photo opportunites.

So the day ended another load of miles done, and to cap it all Dougs sister Morag, Sarah and Jim had driven all the way from Edinburgh to meet us all, which was handy as Doug had some tlc from his sister as she bandaged up the scrapes.

Our hotel resembles Fawlty Towers, more on that tomorrow.

Things have just clearly got a whole load better for Doug and considerably worse for Rob,  as the Mighty Aston Villa beat Liverpool at Anfield, happy days!!!

So to finish the donut update, Asda have failed miserably with no votes from the team, so sorry Asda you dont even get a look in, the resounding opinion is that they are rubbish at donuts.

Tomorrow sees us of to Fort William and the foot of Ben Nevis the highest mountain in Great Britian which tells you all you need to know about tomorrows ride.

Please keep bloging and supporting us it really does spur us on.

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