Day 8 - Grasmere to Moffat

The day dawned as the last day finished, raining. But it's the Lake District, so what should we expect?!

We headed over Dunmill Raise and headed around Thirmere. With the rain still coming and going we headed out of the Lakes over nice, quiet roads with good views to Welton where we met the van for the morning break.

Carlisle proved fairly straightforward as we headed to Longtown for our lunch stop by the River Esk. The weather was now sunny but the wind strengthening in a highly unfavourable NW'ly direction.

With lots of team riding we made it over the England/Scotland Border and up to Moffat, though the wind made 10mph near impossible at times. However we were greeted with a great overnight stop at the Wells Road Centre (see photo). With so many rooms including a table tennis room and football/basketball hall, it kept us amused for hours. We couldn't ask for a better place to rest our legs after 85 hard miles. Roll on tomorrow, the first full day in Scotland!!

Simon