Don and Sasha...you guys would LOVE taking your bikes for a spin on the roads in Scotland. They are soooo narrow, hilly, twisty and turny.
We had a diesel minivan (a most unwanted free upgrade) and it was quite unsettling driving the roads at first. Not only is it weird being on the opposite side of the car and road, but the roads are simply so narrow with these old stone walls seemingly inches away from the side mirrors! It's even scarier at night, especially when rounding corners and coming up against oncoming traffic.
It was so windy one day that after passing military flatbeds transporting jeeps earlier in the day, I doubled back to find that one of the jeeps was blown off the truck and into the rocks on the side of the highway! A number of people were killed in Great Britain that day...a stone wall collapsed on a child in one case. TV footage showed a pedestrian loosing their footing and being blown across the sidewalk into a wall!
Cheers, Derek
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