Day 50

A significant day! Shortly after leaving Drymen we met two madmen. That is to say.....we met two other madmen, John and Doug, also walking from Lands End to John O'Groats. It was fun to compare notes. They had set off after us and taken a different route, avoiding the Pennine Way.
In one of life's coincidences it turns out that John and Andrew have mutual friends who live in the Orkneys. And John used to work for Xerox in Marlow with someone I know.
John and Doug were booked into the Rowardennan Hotel like us and we had an enjoyables evening later enhanced when Doug produced a guitar and started singing folk songs. We hope to meet up with them again in Kinlochlevan on Saturday and also Fort William on Sunday.