Outer Hebrides 2004
A story of chains and rubber?

We finally got our cycling holiday to the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles as they are also known. We had been wanting to go for several years but never had, for one reason or another.

It took some effort to arrange as ScotRail don’t have the easiest booking system. In fact we couldn’t book a return ticket for our Sleeper train from London to Glasgow as they were only taking bookings up to a certain date, and our planned holiday spanned that date. In the end I ended up booking single tickets for the outward journey, and the next day I discovered that they were now taking bookings for our return date, so I booked that - and wrote a letter to complain. Eventually we were refunded £58 - so it just goes to show, it can be worthwhile to complain sometimes…

You can navigate from day to day, starting here... Wednesday 26 May 2004

Alternatively you can view the index of each day... Index page

Date Kilometres Miles
26 May 2004 2.2 1.4
27 May 2004 6.2 3.9
28 May 2004 76.5 47.5
29 May 2004 77.8 48.3
30 May 2004 85.1 52.9
31 May 2004 65.6 40.7
01 June 2004 39.5 24.5
02 June 2004 34.1 21.2
03 June 2004 53.1 33.0
04 June 2004 56.4 35.0
05 June 2004 74.7 46.4
06 June 2004 25.6 15.9
Totals: 596.8 370.7