Cima Racing : Home2Rome 2010: Day Two: Going right to the top

Day Two: Going right to the top

10 November 2009

Inverness to John o' Groats. That shouldn't be too tricky, even on damp roads and with plenty of mist about.

Firing up the 90 behind everyone else, we reckoned a quick blast up the A9 and A99 would see us in John o' Groats by lunchtime. We got there quicker than that - the roads are magnificent and, despite the dampness, the trusty Audi never once protested about my slightly 'enthusiastic' driving. Undulations, hairpins, sweeping bends, long straights, it had it all. And then, after just over two hours, we arrived in tenth place at John o' Groats.

And that's when a wave of enormous disappointment washed over

us, as we realised what a dire, drab and depressing place this famous landmark is. It was difficult to tell the difference between the gift shop and toilet block, such was the grey blandness of it all.

But still, we'd made it! The Audi had got us the length of the country to Britain's second most northerly point - Dunnet Head, slightly to the west, is actually further up, but John o' Groats is furthest from Lands End.

Now all we have to do is go all the way back down again. Next stop, Berwick-upon-Tweed!