What a walk

Alec Hawkes and Lizzie Whicker are walking from John O Groats to Lands End to raise money for several charities. Altogether the walk will take a couple of months travelling an average of fifteen miles a day.


The weather has been glorious so far and it looks as though they can expect the same for the next few days. The charities being collected for are Sense (for deafblind people), Whizz-Kidz (improving the lives of disabled children), The A21 Campaign (protecting people from abusive injustice), and The Royal Voluntary Service (supporting older people).

Todays journey will take them to the Blacksmiths Arms at Talkin where we have just dropped of their luggage. Alecs charity page can be found here and his blog here. Good luck. I hope the weather stays fine for you.

In the footsteps of St Columba

Our first cycle visitors of the year. Michel and Vera from Belgium are on a cycle holiday following the St Columba's cycle route. 
St Columba was an Irish monk who built a monastry in the 5th century on the Isle of Iona and brought Christianity to Scotland. The route follows the advancement of Christianity in Roman Britain.
Yesterdays journey took them from Hexham to Gretna Green and today they will be travelling on to Castle Douglas.


The pair will be cycling for almost one month, taking in the sights of Arran, Kintyre , Mull, the Trossachs and Edinburgh. Michel and Veras blog can be found here.

Clair and Drew

Claire Welch and her friend Drew who hail from Bristol were our visitors last night. The pair are cycling from Lands End to John O Groats on behalf of Business Action on Homelessness, a programme which helps homeless people to seek and find employment.
The highlights of their journey so far have been the views of Dartmoor and Monmouthshire where they managed to find a rare day of sunshine.
Yesterdays journey took them from Kendal to Gretna Green in wet cloudy conditions. Today they will be travelling to New Lanark. Good luck and keep smiling.

Family Holiday

From left to right we have Rachel, Stewart, Mary, Martin and Anne. The Horder family are cycling from Lands End to John O Groats for a family holiday. Anne is acting as support driver, which may sound like the easy job, but if you saw how many suitcases she had to carry to the rooms you would not think it was so easy.


Yesterdays journey saw them travel from Ambleside in the Lake District and when they arrived we put on a meal for them. This morning brought heavy rain with Martin soaking up lots of it having to repair his bike. But the rain dryed up and the family cycled off in the direction of Sanquhar.

Details of their travels can be found here.

Avoiding the Olympics

Tom Hansell and Alex Vickery are vacating London for the duration of the olympics in order to cycle from Lands End to John O Groats raising money for Cancer Research UK
Tom (World famous composer) and Alex (World famous financial advisor) say the highlight of their journey so far was yesterdays detour through the Lake District cycling alongside Windermere and Ullswater.

Todays journey will be taking the pair to Kilmarnock.

Tom and Alex's charity page can be found here.

Sophie and Tom

Girlfriend/Boyfriend Sophie Headeach and Tom Moores are cycling from John O Groats to Lands End in order to raise money for Hospicecare , a Devon based charitity providing free quality care and support for people who are terminally ill.


Yesterdays journey took them from Edinburgh to Gretna Green, an impressive 90 miles. The pair will be meeting up with Sophies brother Pete for the last 3 days of the journey.

The highlight of the ride so far has been the beautiful Carngorms where the bad weather eased off for a couple of days.

Sophie and Toms charity page can be found here.

James and Joe and Paul too

Adventurous father and son team James and Joe Arnold (14) are cycling from Lands End to John O Groats to raise cash for the charity Action Duchenne. (A charity hoping to find a cure for the muscle wasting disease Duchene)


The pair have met up with their friend Paul (far left)who has riden with them for the last two days. Today however they part company with Paul who is heading back home to York.

The weather looks fairly good, for a change, for the pairs next stage to Sanquhar and hopefully in another week they should reach John O Groats.

James and Joes progress can be found on their blog.

Sams Giant Triathlon.

University student Sam Richardson is is running from John O Groats to Lands End in aid of two charities Macmillans Cancer Support and St Elizabeths Hospice. After a visit to the hospital earlier in the week and advice from doctors Sam had to switch from running to cycling and so turned up yesterday by bike. He will be switching back to running in a few days, and even doing an 800 metre swim (converting his run into a massive triathlon).


Sams favourite part of the journey so far has been following the Caledonian Canal through the Great Glen.

Details of Sams progress can be found here.