Credits

Thanks to each and everyone of you who made this Challenge the usual great experience.

Thanks to all of you who agreed to podcast interviews, I hope you'll come out of the process sounding good!

Thanks also to:

Tom and Liz Forrest (Liz you're a saint), all at Cannich, Coylumbridge, Braemar, North Waterbridge and Montrose campsites, all of those wonderful volunteers who look after us so well at Challenge control, to Anne and Alvar my route vetters, the members of Bingo Wings, the staff of the Old Bakery, the Tuck Inn and Bombay Nights and to the Post Office who once again managed to deliver all of my food parcels without mishap.

Special thanks go to all of you who I met along the road, a list too long to go into here. Your company was much appreciated and I hope we will meet again before too long. Thanks also to Colin Ibbotson, Shirley Worrall, Alan Sloman and Humphrey Weightman for being such great companions as always, and to Lee and Tony and to Sally and the Old Squire for being such good company during the final meal. Ian Shiel and Pete Goddard proved as helpful as ever when I was planning routes. Ian, one day we'll meet. And Pete, I am counting up those whiskeys I owe you. Once year I'll actually bump into you in the Park Hotel bar! Thanks also to all of my fellow bloggers, especially to Weird D for being — well — so engagingly weird! I'd also like to thank all of my blog readers who I met on the Challenge; it was nice to know that these ramblings can occasionally be of real use.

Finally big thanks to Bob and Rose for not only providing those last minute necessities and for conning me into carrying all of that Podcast palava over Scotland. Thanks to Kate for trusting me with the route.