April 29, 2025
By The Sea
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I bought a house recently and moved into a characterful dwelling a century and a half old by the seashore called Coastguard Villas, looking out across a wide crescent bay with a light house at the far side. Immediately inland is a mountain range with wooded valleys and further along the bay is rolling green hills. In such respect I consider myself extremely lucky. Most mornings now, cloud and sea mist notwithstanding, I watch the red orb of the sun rise followed by its golden light stream across the bay and fill my living room. And most days around work I get out cycling. There is a great network of mountain bike trails stretching across three forest parks and some days I mix thing by taking my gravel bike on a circuit of forestry fire roads and bridal ways. I go road cycling too where there is the choice of challenging mountain climbs or undulating country lanes.
Anyway, I have been busy getting settled in and now its time for that bike-packing trip I intended doing. Originally I planned going to the East of England in March. I still intend doing a bike trip there, but it will have to wait. For now I intend taking the short ferry ride from Belfast (31 miles away) to Cairnryan in Scotland and from there go south to the southern tip of The Mull Of Galloway, the southernmost point of Scotland; from which, I want to follow an off road route uploaded on Komoot mapping App dubbed the Faultline Trail, its a Scotland End-to-End challenge. I would like to follow it as far north as the Great Glen, then veer west to a place called Ardnamurchan Point, the westernmost point of mainland Britain. As usual nothing is written in stone and out on the road plans may change.
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