Garden Futures at the V&A Dundee

Cherry and Colin got the train to Dundee for our second visit (?) to the V&A Dundee the last visit being a long time ago. The Garden Futures exhibition was a bit disappointing with an awful lot about the past and not so much a vision of the future. It was a bit bitty as well. The embroidery from Palestine was a nice little exhibition of traditional Palestinian dress. A nice lunch in the cafe. It was a bit cold and our feet a bit too gallery tired to spend much more time exploring Dundee so we headed home late afternoon and arrived early for our dinner at Ciao Roma. 

Gritopia Revisited

Another long hilly ride in preparation for my Ruta del Ter trip in November. 38 miles and 1600 m of climb over 5 hours cycling and 6 hours elapsed time. Hard work.

 

To Kill A Mockingbird - Festival Theatre

A good performance at the Festival Theatre.

 

Natural Tweed and White Castle Climb

In preparation for my Catalan cycling holiday I had two longish back to back days to test my form and train for the holiday.

Day 1 was a return to the Natural Tweed route which I've done a number of times now with various small amendments to the route. It is very nice in parts but has a few too many sections that are just too hard for me to cycle or involve a bit too much muck. Finished in reasonably good shape after just under 30 miles and 1000+ m of climb in 4 hrs 36 mins.

Day 2 was on the roads from Gifford doing the climb to White Castle and back through the Lammermuirs. There was very strong headwinds on the way back (and lots of climb) so wasn't feeling to joyous for the last 90 minutes. The bleak exposed roads weren't that inspiring so doubt I would do this route again. Just over 30 miles and around 1200 miles climb in just over 4 hours.

I'll have some longer and tougher days in Catalonia so I think I'll find it reasonably challenging. Was pretty tired for 3 days after this.