Day 10 - Hamilton - Loch Lomond

After a hefty 77miler yesterday we decided a nice easy day through Glasgow city centre and upto Loch Lomond was the order of the day; a mere 41miles.



We went through Hamilton passing the racecourse, onto a dodgy dual carriageway A765 then made our way into the Glasgow city centre which was really cool. We managed to miss a million coffee shops and eventually stopped for a cuppa in the Science Centre. We then took the cycle path alongside the Clyde but then managed to get diverted and ended up crossing the Clyde tunnel a very eerie bonkers experience with the temperature change and no daylight and spooky shadows... our speed increased somewhat through there!



We then realised that we were on the wrong side of the river but decided against a revisit through the tunnel. We then passed a huge retail park but managed to keep the shopaholic tendancies under wraps and ploughed on through trying to get where we needed to go. We managed to spot a ferry that took us all of a 100m back across the Clyde to the 'right' side and miraculously picked up the cycle path again. We headed on this path for a few miles before it became a 'tow path' and Lucy's bike began to get the fear and reared up so we took a diversion onto good old solid concrete. After a hairy experience on some busy roads we refound the cycle path now a tarmaced surface so continued along this all the way to Loch Lomond. We evenutally found our spooky castle around 3pm.

After a clean up we walked into Balloch for a mediocre curry and are now back at the castle getting ready for bed (8.30pm).

Vital stats for the day: 1123 kcal; 41.1miles; 4hrs 3mins ride time (v slow through town)
No mishaps today!