Well The 2007 Mountain bike world championships were in Scotland so i made the trek north to the Scottish highlands. Renee stayed at home as the trip was going to involve lots of guys talking about bikes , riding bikes , drinking beer and smelling bad.
I flew up to Glasgow by myself and headed north to Pitlochry, a small town were my mate Mark from Brisbane now lives with his wife and son. Having not ridden a bike for a few months the first thing we did was headed out for a ride. The riding in Scotland is amazing, partly to do with the incredible scenery and also the abundance of big hills and great government support.
We then headed to Fort William which is the base town of Ben Nevis "The highest mountain in the UK" The race was at a ski resort just outside of town. The racing was held over about 4 days and i managed to squeeze in another awesome ride with a group of local Scottish riders.
One of my old work mates (Luke) from Brisbane who now lives on London came up on the Saturday with a few of his mates so i spent some time catching up with them. Sunday was the Down hill race and that was the highlight of the event! lots of crashing and high speed action. On Monday I headed back to Glasgow with Luke and his mates. On the way we stopped of at Glen Coe which is an awesome little spot in a valley between all these mountains . Its so lush and green and has creeks, waterfalls and Lochs.
The Weather was great with blue skies and sunshine so the drive back to Glasgow involved lots of faces against the window looking out at the incredible scenery. I had a few hours before my flight so i had some time to check out Glasgow. I had heard that it wasn't all that nice and was very working class but i found it to have a friendly vibe and some great architecture and seemed like a pretty cool city.
Check out a few photos here
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