Subject: Your Tour of Scotland Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:07:06 +0100 From: the-nortons@idealinternet.co.uk To: sv@usa.net Simon - best read I've had in a while. Found you whilst looking for a pub to stay in at Wick. I am starting a Lands End to John O'Groats bike ride on 4th August and wanted to spend my last night nearer the train station at Wick than the hostel at J O'G so I was surfing and up you popped. You have scared the shit out of me and become my hero at the same time. Steve Norton UK -- Subject: Cycle tour Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:23:18 +0000 From: David Lynch (bluedome@airtime.co.uk) To: sv@usa.net Dear Simon Thanks for the great tale, read over and over. When are we going to get some pictures? I would like to add your tale to our BlueDome web site, let me know if that is OK with you. Best Wishes David Lynch BlueDome and Trailwalk - the UK outdoors gateway http://www.bluedome.co.uk - http://www.trailwalk.com -- Subject: Re. Cycle tour of Scotland. Date: 10 Jun 2001 11:18:48 -0000 From: "Nachiket Sontakke." (nachiket_sontakke@rediffmail.com) To: "sv@usa.net" (sv@usa.net) Dear Sir, With refrence to the website "http://members.ozemail.com.au/~svandore/travel/scotland/cycle/" I am requesting you to guide me for cycle tour of Scotland. I want to travel this butyful country by cycle. So kindly guides me regarding when to go, what equpiments are essentials, how many money required, which cycle is best etc. Kindly guide me each and everything that is important. Thanking you. Sincerely Yours, Nachiket Sontakke. INDIA -- Subject: Just got through looking at your Scotland bike tour... Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:17:58 -0500 From: "Bill Lowe" WLlowe@mail.lasccoa.state.la.us To: sv@usa.net Very interesting. Some pictures would be nice, but then that was four years ago, huh? Probably not going to happen. I'm thinking, dreaming, sort of planning some tour of somewhere. Your site has convinced me that Scotland isn't the place, so your pain has done someone some good. -- Subject: biking across scotland Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:21:03 EST From: SCRGa@aol.com To: sv@usa.net I read your webpage on your biking trip across Scotland. I am interested in such a trip. Could I have more information such as how you planned it, how you got your equipment, how much of the trip was prepared in advance, and other pertinent info. Thank you, Sarah -- Subject: Nice Story Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:18:32 EDT From: Susanakent@aol.com To: sv@usa.net Hello, read your story after looking up Tongue Scotland on the net, planning my next trip. Merely a bus and hostel traveler myself (with only a few tales to tell about death defying quarter mile marches on Scottish back roads) I can only say, happy you survived. Are you going back? susanakent@aol.com Portland, Maine -- Subject: Cycle Tour of Scotland Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:37:41 +0200 From: "gaynor" gaynor@iafrica.com To: sv@usa.net Hi Simon Thank you for posting your cycle tour on the Internet. It was great for me to get a feel for what I am getting into in June and July. I plan to be cycling mostly around the north of Scotland, in particular Orkney Islands and Skye - perhaps even Shetland. Doing it in summer I hope will be a lot warmer than the blustery winter winds you experienced although rain is probably a given. Coming from warm, sunny South Africa, 4 degrees C does not sound survivable. How a man from OZ endured it is historical! I was in Orkney last year - June 1999. I loved it with a passion, but left wanting to see and feel more. I was one of those who did it the easy way and hired a car in Edinburgh, then left it on the main land at John O'Groats and took the ferry across. Public transport stops too soon on these twilight islands in summer. There is so much to see. This time I want to catch the inter-island ferries to the smaller islands and cycle at my own pace and enjoy the feeling of freedom and connection. Thank you once again for whetting my appetite. You write very well and had me smiling and living the tour through your words. Best wishes Gaynor Gaynor Schoeman of Gaynor Boat Coordinators P O Box 26953 HOUT BAY 7872 Cape Town, South Africa -- Subject: trip to Scotland Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:00:16 +1000 From: "jhoggan" jhoggan@sia.net.au To: sv@usa.net Dear Simon Vandore, Your trip to Scotland was a classic. We went there last year and my husband complained about the wind and rain all the time. It was really funny, especially when the umbrella he bought at Chester fell to bits in Edinburgh, while the somewhat more battered one bought in Sydney (Australia) kept on keeping on. My husband, a Scot by birth, had been homesick for the place for many years. When we finally got there he was singing a completely different tune, so that I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Yours sincerely, Joan Jhoggan@sia.net.au