I can recommend The Pier in Lairg for food. One for the ‘to do’ list.

Hi is this still available?
Robbie in Bournemouth

Interesting read, dressing similarly entirely optional.

https://apple.news/Ay9j7Pl0vQEaBFmNjMBW_2g

There’s a GPS link too ( almost hidden!)

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/55551051

I’ve ridden parts of this route and yes it’s the antidote to NC500.

Mark,
Just following on from your previous thread…… I have just bought another bike (alloy / carbon road bike, 700c wheels, very different to my Raven) and it is being sent to me by Parcelforce 48.  In a box 1.50m long and under 20kg it cost £18.25 which included £150 compensation.  So if you can get a cardboard bike box from your LBS and some old bubblewrap, sending your bike to it’s new owner means a little work but is surprisingly cheap.

Actually, I can, Andre...an Art-Deco cross between a full-sus Moulton AM-7 separable spaceframe and a Dursley-Pedersen.

You're so quick, Dan. I had to look up the Moulton AM-7 -- I came into cycling only in 1990 when I gave up the car altogether so it was before my time.

The Dursley-Pedersen is definitely of the same clay as the classic Citroens: exactly enough of sophisticated technology to serve a purpose, and the rest agricultural to last forever. I'm a big fan of the Pedersen, especially in the fat-tired recreation by a now sadly late German businessman.

I'm not so sure of Art Deco though. One didn't see Art Deco in Citroens when it was current as a dominant style, especially in France, say in the Traction Avant on the leather covering the door cards. Citroen never added anything merely decorative to their cars; everything had to serve a purpose, and, surprisingly for a car with so much original design in it, everything can be justified by engineering purpose, rather than as merely tacked-on design. It is, in large part, why the real Citroens have aged so well, why 'timeless' is the adjective most heard about the DS: there's nothing, like Art Deco, to fix it to any period; it is sui generis.

I think a case can be made that runs the other way, that Citroen set a certain tone that fed into art styles and movements. I've given up counting the movies in which a DS was used as a contemporary car in a setting far into the future, a symbol more than merely an artifact. My favorite is one of the Highlander movies where we see Christopher Lambert sitting in a bar looking out at a pall over a city, clearly a future environmental catastrophe, and then he gets up and walks out his car, a Citroen DS. There I burst out laughing -- it's just so hokey -- but not everyone is convinced the director intended self-parody.

You'll know that cycling has become an art form when a mainstream rather than a cult movie has a main character crack a joke about Peugeot bikes in the 1970s.