It was high time that I had a rest day today so only 25 mikes on the clock. Uber simple routing for the next few days.
North out of Carlisle on the A7.
Take a left towards Parkhouse.
Follow cycle route N74 which runs alongside the M74 on the minor roads right into Glasgow. Being relatively flat the cycling was good and had a little bit of sun today.
Arriving at Gretna was very excited to be crossing the border into Scotland. Must be nearly there! I got my photo taken by another End to Ender. They had had taken 6 days! Ouch!!
Arriving early it was time to do something other than washing, route planning or eating. I visited the Lockerbie memorial garden which felt quite pertinent with all the events in Libya. At the far end of the Lockerbie cemetery there is a modest but immaculately kept garden with a list of all those who died. Individual families have been allowed to mount there own stones as has Pan Am.
Having heard all about this on the news many years ago it was moving to read the personal inscriptions to those who had been lost. Whole families and children as young as two months. Being so close to Christmas the excitement about seeing the relative that was on that flight would have been huge. Then to have them taken away must have been so cruel.
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