travelling yesterday

With a 4am start yesterday and a long drive up to John O Groats we eventually arrived at about 7.15pm only to find we struggled to find anyone to sign the end to end form.  howver you can go to the kiosk who did it for  us or the Seaview Hotel just up the road.  With that signed we embarked on putting up our three two person tents and the campbeds wow was that a struggle.  After that we decided it was probably better to go to bed so we did - i for one only got about 4hrs sleep because the cold and wind kept us awake although i could hear Alan B snoring so he must have slept.  We got up at 4.45 instead of 5 am because the wind, snow and cold left us all huddling in the van.