LEJOG Day12 Sanquhar to The Lochranza Hotel Arran

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><font size="3">I mostly planned today's route partly using Phil Horsley's LEJOG book but it was still a challenge to find a way through Irvine that I felt was both safe and fast. I calculated that I needed to leave Sanquhar no later than 8am to be sure of arriving in Ardrossan to meet up my wife so we could travel together on the 12:30pm ferry to Brodick. The hotel kindly provided a breakfast tray the previous evening for my early start. </font></span>

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><font size="3">I left Sanquhar about 7.45am and made good progress apart from a short delay by some road works. It probably helped that it was a Sunday morning, the roads were quiet. After leaving the B730 in Drybridge, please take care when crossing the footbridge over the A78 on the end of Shewalton Road. Currently there's a small barking dog that runs out from a property just before the footbridge, fortunately I had been forewarned by another cyclist. Another warning, there is a big drop at the far side of the footbridge down onto the path. It's too great a drop to be cycled over especially on a road bike.</font></span>

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><font size="3">On Arran the road from Brodick follows the Firth of Clyde as far as Sannox then a long climb over to Lochranza. Passing the distillery I couldn't resist buying some malt whiskey for the celebratiion at John O'Groats. </font></span>