Land’s End to John O’ Groats is Britain’s notional longest journey. Like football, seaside holidays and comic travelogues, the End to End is a creation of the late Victorian creative-leisure boom. Then, it was over 900 miles on mostly unmade roads. Now, it can be under 820 on tarmac. Whether to set a record, support a charity, or find themselves, people have walked it, run it, swum it, canoed it, skateboarded it, bus-passed it…
And cycled it. The route’s up to you, which is part of the appeal. Shortest paved possible, or off-road exploratory? Collect cathedrals, whisky distilleries or friends en route? Your call. You see the whole country and experience parts of it in new ways. Bus shelters, for instance, sitting out the rain with a sandwich.
For the…
