A "40% chance of rain" doesn't mean there's a 40% chance it will rain where you are standing. It means that across a defined geographical area, for a defined time window, precipitation is expected to fall on roughly 40% of it.
A day out from Arbroath now. The boots are off. The blisters are healing. My ribs still have opinions about sneezing, but they're coming around.
The day began with me nearly burning down a Scottish forest.
Dinner​ at Ballathie House Hotel is silver service. Gloves, proper presentation, the whole thing.
We woke up in the second greatest campsite, which smelled, and I mean this genuinely, ​wonderful.
Days six and seven have been the most beautiful of the trip. I want to get that on record before I tell you everything that went wrong today.