86m today, 273m so far, Ride time 6 hrs 54 mins

Found a girl in our shower (with her boyfriend, we think!) and didn’t remember that being handed out with the bedding. Ben Nevis had its usual cloak of mist and cos of Ed’s knee twinge the pace slowed quite a bit but the wonderful views and warm weather made that easy to cope with.

. Lived out a childhood dream by riding a seal at the sea life centre. Into Oban to watch some wedding festivities for a while and Indy commented that he hadn’t seen so many lovely pairs of legs, problem was half belonged to big kilted blokes.

At this point we were doing well in the Olympics and so people understandably shouted out Hoy and Wiggins from time to time, Ah you have to admire pissed Scots at lunchtime. B+B was tidy, run by a Villa fan, Chinese was busy so we had take out in the local park – we know how to live well!