So we made the sleeper train without any dramas. Cycling across London not as bad as I thought and the roads were pretty quiet at 7:30pm. Mind you, my bike weights a tonne with the fully loaded panniers on board - crawled up a couple of large hills on the way to Gerrards Cross station that normally are no trouble. I could be facing the embarrassment of Thomas leaving me behind now he's bigger and stronger! Mind you I've given him a rucksack to carry and put the tools and spares in it to try and slow him down a bit.
Euston station was packed and after a short wait the sleeper train arrives early, we load the bikes into the special bike van and are shown our cabins. Thomas was expected 5 star luxury and was bitterly disappointed with the cramped bunk beds. There's certainly been no improvement since I used the sleeper 4 years ago and it was pretty dire then!
So we'll try and get a few hours sleep on our moving bunk beds as the train rattles it way northwards and we then wake up in Inverness tomorrow morning ready for the 50 miles to Elgin.
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