27/09/2012

Day 27 Strabane to Belfast

After a good but late night's sleeping we got up and knew what laid ahead. The weather forecast was'nt good and we took to the road as soon as we could.

After this fun and games photo we set off to face horrid weather and many, many hills. In fact, a constant supply of hills, not great big long ones, just constant small drops and rises which slowly kills your legs.

There were two things that really stood out to me on this day, one being how all the police stations looked like fortresses and secondly and not for the faint hatred, I saw no road kills on my journey through Northern Ireland. I know it might be bad taste to talk about it but in England it is mostly squirrels ans fox's, in Scotland, Deer and hedgehogs but here in Ireland.....nothing?

The lack of sleep two nights before and the long tiring cycling form yesterday combined with the bad weather from today was wearing me thin

After leaving Strabane I cycled to Kesh then weaved my way to Newcastle where my energy dropped to zero and the day started to become increasingly harder. I just wanted to fall down, anywhere, and sleep. I couldn't care about eating, just sleep. But knowing that we where almost done was quite rewarding.

We drove from Belfast to Larne to stay the night in a caravan site close to the Ferry terminal as not to miss the ferry over.

The day completed to Belfast brought the total to 169 miles and a combined distance of 2345 miles in 27 days. The day was done, Northern Ireland was done and I was done.