About Lejog

 

Photo from Tour Aoteoroa  2022-top of Kaiwhakauka Track miles from anywhere early evening

I am departing on Monday 27 May 2024  and arriving in London next day and work my way  to the start of the tour, near lands end, fin Cornwall, for the  23 day  bike Tour start day of 3 June and finishing on 25 June at John O Groats at the top of Scotland.

Lee -Anne-Anne leaves a week later and is taking a friend over who has never travelled internationally. Lee -Anne has a few day in London , then to Bath to catch up with her sister Tina and then heads up North for Tour of Scotland and Lake District. We meet up on 26 June in Scotland and holiday together working our way down thru Inverness, Edinburgh, Manchester, the cotswolds, Oxford and finish in London for 7 nights before heading back to NZ arriving on Friday 12 July.

LEJOG stands for Lands End to John O'Groats. A long standing Bike tour that goes from the Bottom of England in Cornwall up to the Top eastern point of Scotland called Lands end. Its approx 1000 miles and there is not set route but cycles try to find quiet roads and paths. This tour is Run by Cycle Britian and is intended to be enjoyed as opposed to constant head down bottom up hard on cycling. We stay in hotels and our gear is taken by vehicle from place to place, so we aren't carry large weight. In addition most of the riders are older and ride electric bike. Which I am doing on this tour.

I am planning to post  daily blogs and if you want you can read about our exploits and also if you want go to track my progress following live my "dot" as I travel the route using now similar to me  Mapprogress  software. The device I carry sends every 5 minutes a signal to salellites of my position and Mapprogress use this for tour events to track participants and families of there whereabouts.

I hope you enjoy my blogs.

kindest

Lyall