Crossing the Forth and pushing on north

The Best Western at Lockerbie is a great hotel, set in picturesque grounds. It has a very posh looking restaurant but today we opted for making ourselves oat so simple in our room while we were getting ready and skipped breakfast at the hotel.

This meant that we were on the road for 08:00 and getting some miles in early.

Around 30 miles in we stopped for a feed at Abington General Store. Danny had his first taster of haggis this trip. We grabbed some snacks to take away and then set off again.

The rest of the day went well, some sections of road were a bit monotonous and seemed to drag. We stopped for a KFC in Livingston, just south of Edinburgh.

The route improved as the day went on. We crossed over the Forth road bridge, which is pretty spectacular itself. To our left we had the Queensferry crossing bridge and to our right the Forth rail bridge.

On the approach to Kinross we had a long downhill section with stunning views of Loch Leven and some tight turns, great fun to end the day