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I am cycling from Edinburgh to Orkney over 5 days with Robin Hutt and Steve Durkin. We leave Edinburgh on the 19th June and will cycle each day until we arrive in Kirkwall, Orkney on the 23rd June. We will carry all we need with us on the bikes and have never done anything like this before..! Our adventure will take us across the Forth Road Bridge, over the Cairngorms, past the Glenmorangie Distillery and through some of the most remote parts of Scotland.

We expect the scenery to be stunning, the weather to be changeable, the midges to bite and everything to hurt by the time we arrive in Orkney so it seems fitting that someone should benefit from our adventure.

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