Everything ran to clockwork and in Inverness the next mission was to post home the bike boxes. Mine only cost me £15 on ebay, so was reluctant to spend a lot posting it home. We got a taxi to the parcelforce depot and set about building the bikes up in the car park. We were about 2kg into the more expensive price bracket so the woman left us to it to try and reduce the weight. We ditched all the pipe lagging and took a few tools out. It wasn't quite enough to bring it to 20kg but I managed to lean it carefully against the wall to get it to read just under. The woman seemed happy and once she had printed the postage label, I sneaked some of the tools back in!
We then had several hours to kill in Inverness to wait for the train. I wanted to buy a kilt (upcoming 30th birthday) and Inverness was a pretty good place to go and get one. One shop wanted £500! But we found a shop right by the station, which was much more reasonable! Each kilt is hand tailored and takes a seamstress around 14 hours to make, so there is no skimping!
The train took nearly 4 hours to cover the 120 miles up to Thurso, great scenery but arrived after dark and a short pedal in very chilly conditions to the 'hotel' motel. Just enough time for a quick pint of McEwans Ale (not a patch on Devon Ales) and then off to bed.
Total miles cycled: 2
Time on bikes: about 10 mins
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