THE MAP

It took me a couple of hours to draw this map, and it brought home just how far it is...

I have 10 stages (plus a half one at the beginning), but they're flexible as I don't know how I'm going to do on the road, and a couple of them are probably too long. I've tried to navigate between youth hostels on the route, and, where possible, to rest just before a big climb rather than just afterwards.

Highlights of the trip are North Cornwall, Dartmoor, the Wye Valley, a bit of the Lake District, Loch Lomond, Glencoe, and Loch Ness and Inverness.