Hi, George
I’ve thought of a few things that may help with your planning. in no particular order, here they are.
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I planned to make the reservation for the airline, three hostel stays (upon arrival, in London, and just before my flight home), and train in the next week or so. The train from Edinburgh to London is the only train I anticipated.
I need to do a bike ride with my mirror to see if I like it, but tentatively it should work. But it does vibrate slightly. First photo. I think I should have the mirror on the right side, for one thing that will remind me to ride on the other side of the road.
My helmet mirror can only go on the left side, it has a clamp that clamps onto my visor, second photo, the clamp is at an angle that puts makes it specific to only the left side.
I am not going to go out of the way to save a few (almost said bucks for USD) quid (for GBP) if I am only riding one train ride. But thanks for the suggestion. A month and a half means that the costs will add up, but by mostly camping and hosteling, and most of my food would be cooked in a campsite, the total trip cost should be quite reasonable for that amount of time.
I did my Iceland trip a decade ago, about five weeks long. That same year my sister did a two week guided group tour of several countries in Europe. Afterwards I told her she really screwed up, her trip was only 40 percent as long, but cost twice as much as my trip. She could have done two of my trips for the price she paid.
Third photo. This was either Nova Scotia or PEI (Canada), the mosquitos were waiting for me to open the door for them in the morning to let them in for breakfast.
I mentioned a few times that I have sprayed some of my clothing with Permethrin. One problem with bugs and biking is that most bike jerseys are mesh and all those tiny little holes are there just so that bugs can easily bit you the moment they land on you. Hopefully, but treating some of my clothing, that should help.
I am used to camping where there are a lot of bugs. I am originally from Minnesota (USA). And as a Minnesotan, I have some immunity to mosquitos. In Minnesota, the mosquitos are quite large. If they taste a baby human and the baby tastes good, they carry the baby off to eat later. But if they taste a baby that tastes bad, they leave them behind. Thus, after several generations, the humans don't taste very good to mosquitos.
