Overview of 2024 tour plan

As alluded to in my previous post, planning our 2024 tour has been fairly complicated. But now with route, accommodation and ferries planned, the overall route is shown below.

As usual, we're starting and finishing in Oban - this route is a bit of an outline, there will be extra bits of cycling dependent on the weather, local sights and of course fatigue. The opening leg is principally the ferry crossing from Oban to Castlebay in Barra - a crossing of nearly 5h. In total, we have seven ferries!

We're acutely aware that several years have elapsed since our last tour in 2017, and while I've kept up training for time trialling, as a tandem crew we've not really done as much as we used to to pre-Covid.