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<\/p>\nDay 106 of the End to End in 2019 started at Dornoch which has both a Cathedral and a Jail, and also a chocolate shop (which I forgot to mention yesterday). The first pause on the route was at Loch Fleet. I remember when we first saw Loch Fleet, which is a nature reserve, when Bob walked LEJOG in 2003. What an amazing sight. For our morning entertainment seals were balancing and bobbing; all was quiet.<\/p>\n
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The next part of the route was experimental. We’d heard of the John O’Groats Trail and I got the map in Tain, but I’d not tried it yet. It’s main aim was to provide an off road alternative to the A9 from Inverness to john O’Groats. we’d done our best to find our own version of this, which was why I’d gone across the Black Isle (which was totally lovely). But by Tain we were running out of options so I was glad to find the JOGT map. However, there were some warnings: it was not all necessarily signed, it was somewhat experimental, it might be affected by high tides and there were places without bridges. With this in mind, I was cautious. However, I saw the small logo on a fence post and decided to try it: better than the A9 I thought.<\/p>\n
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It turned out to be part of the route of the old Dornoch Light Railway which went from The Mound (my end point today) to Dornoch and which had lead to its rise as a tourist destination. It was rather overgrown. At one point I was swimming through chest high bracken. However, it was green and it did go where it said it would and I was soon on the way across the end of Loch Fleet and meeting Bob.<\/p>\n
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Most of my alternative route plans have so far worked out more or less (obviously so, or I’d not be still writing this). Even on the TPT I took a few alternatives, like a small footpath round a wood at the start of yesterday to avoid the road south of West Cowick. It’s good to try an off road route and my theory is you can always come back if it proves impassable. As it was, in 2019, I was less than 75 miles from John O’Groats and there were more sections of JOGT to try over the next few days.<\/p>\n
From the remembered gospel: Jesus said ‘Go by the narrow route: it leads to life!’<\/em><\/p>\n Route finder, I love your directions. JAL: 01.08.2020 Yorkshire Day, in Longdendale, Derbyshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day 106 of the End to End in 2019 started at Dornoch which has both a Cathedral and a Jail, and also a chocolate shop (which I forgot to mention yesterday). The first pause on the route was at Loch Fleet. I remember when we first saw Loch Fleet, which is a nature reserve, when … Continue reading “Caution! Alternative Route”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remembered-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThese green routes amaze me and lift my spirits.
\nMay I always tread gently on the earth.<\/p>\n