{"id":829,"date":"2025-05-08T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T21:14:57","slug":"day-05-carlisle-to-dalbeattie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Day 05 – Carlisle to Dalbeattie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There was a chill in the air as I cycled down to the River Eden to have a look at Carlisle and start the day’s riding.<\/p>\n

At 11am, 275 miles into my trip, I crossed the England Scotland border and stopped in Gretna for a break to eat the ginger cake my host had given me as I left this morning. \"\"<\/a>The sun was out, the views were glorious and the wind was with me. I stopped at the Devil’s Porridge Museum (go, it’s great) and motored on to Annan.\"\"<\/a>Route 7 stopped and started. I saw several “END OF ROUTE” signs as the country lanes joined a designated B Road. One warned me that the road was busy. It was long and straight and some of the drivers were in a hurry. It wasn’t busy.<\/p>\n

Route 7 hugged the coast and Caerlaverlock Castle arrived 300 miles into my journey. I stopped for a look round and a stretch on the grass in the sunshine.\"\"<\/a>Dumfries came late in he day, still bathed in glorious sunshine. I had had no lunch, so I found a cafe for a snack, then crossed river on the Old Bridge. I’ve long wanted to see it up close. (I know, bridge geek).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Leaving Dumfries at 5pm, I chose to avoid A roads and followed Route 7 westwards. That meant hills and inland views.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All the climbing in the day was in this bit. I didn’t look at how far I had to go. I didn’t look at the elevation profile. I just kept pedalling. Mostly slowly.<\/p>\n

At Haugh of Urr, I turned to follow the river down to the estuary. It should have been all downhill. It wasn’t. Happily Dalbeattie turned up just as I was ready to finish the day.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Day total: 69 miles,\u00a0 2,307ft climbed<\/p>\n

Tour total: 331 miles,\u00a0 11,436ft climbed<\/p>\n

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There was a chill in the air as I cycled down to the River Eden to have a look at Carlisle and start the day’s riding. At 11am, 275 miles into my trip, I crossed the England Scotland border and stopped in Gretna for a break to eat the ginger cake my host had given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irishsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatblokeonabike.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}