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Jim passes comment at Ardnamurchan Point Lighthouse
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The Lighthouse itself - can you spot the bikes? Mainland UK's most westerly point.
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Jim at the Lighthouse
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Alan at Ardnamurchan Lighthouse
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Richard at the Lighthouse
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The view at the top of Applecross Drover's Road (looking West). The highest road in the UK (discuss)
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The same view at the top of Applecross Drover's Road (looking West)
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Alan at Bealach na Ba. We call it Applecross 'cos we're Lowlanders
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"In ... 10 feet .... enter Durness ....bleep" UK's Top Left Corner.
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A small detour to the Caribbean was scheduled in straight after Durness
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Dunnet Head. The Most Northerly Point on Mainland UK
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Alan got as far north as you can as well but he got a mouse to take his photo
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John O' Groats, Uk's Top Right Corner and 3rd tackiest Landmark.
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This is an amazingly clean fazer at John O'Groats. The rider is filthy, mind you
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Peterhead Harbour and Fishmarket. Scotland's most easterly point. No tourist traps here, just harr and stink
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See, there's the sea
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The GPS readings at the end of day 1
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'scuse me mate, can you take a photo of Oor Wullie and a Teletubby
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Most northerly point in England - Nice!
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Alan's not an Anglophile then?
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The GPS readings at the end of day 2
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The GPS readings at the end of day 2
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Lowestoft - under construction, clearly. UK's most easterly point dontcherknow
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Overlooking Dover docks, our bottom right corner.
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That be Dover Castle. It's not mine but it should be!
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See, it's me, a Dover in Dover
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The GPS readings at the end of day 3
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The GPS readings at the end of day 3
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Arriving a Lizard Point
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Lizard Point car park
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Alan and Richard adn Lizard Point, the UK mainland's most southerly point. Worth it just for the cream tea.
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Can't you read?
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Land's End. The UK's bottom left corner adn 2nd most tacky landmark.
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Whaurs Jim?
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The GPS readings at the end of day 4
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The GPS readings at the end of day 4
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Barry Promenade. Wales' most southerly point
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St Justinian's nr St David's, Wales' most westerly point. It's an RNLI station
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Water, boats and coast. That's lovely, see!
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Complete with old people to get in the way.
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The GPS readings at the end of day 5
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Say it, go on, I dare you
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Point of Ayr, Prestatyn, Wales most northerly point
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The GPS readings at the end of day 6
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The GPS readings at the end of day 6
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We're about to go off for the last day and are TIRED. It's Annan BTW
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Scotland's most southerly point. Beautiful and has a nice tearoom.
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We made it! George Square, Glasgow.
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The GPS readings at George Sq, Glasgow
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It's me again. I'm not as fat as that in real life.
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The GPS readings at the end of day 7
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The GPS readings at the end of day 7
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Not hungry any more
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Riding 1000 miles in 20 hours shrinks your neck
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the only mechanical failure
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I went off road I did.
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OK, so I'm not 40, yet, I'm not a pharmacist and we don't have a
'green' message but otherwise its a good article.