{"id":566,"date":"2011-01-19T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/clava-cairns-cycle-circuit\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T11:32:25","slug":"clava-cairns-cycle-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/clava-cairns-cycle-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Clava Cairns cycle circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just finished a lovely 30-odd mile ride starting out by the Clava Cairns at Culloden. It’s a beautiful day now, sunny with clear skies, but a bit of a headwind on the way back!
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Took an ‘unplanned’ turn at one point and found a few excellent quiet roads, so a successful trip all round. This is one of the final routes for the book, so off home to write more about it now…<\/p>\n

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The route takes you under the impressive Culloden Viaduct to finish<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just finished a lovely 30-odd mile ride starting out by the Clava Cairns at Culloden. It’s a beautiful day now, sunny with clear skies, but a bit of a headwind on the way back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,7,6,39,8,22],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bike","tag-cycle","tag-inverness","tag-ncn","tag-route","tag-sustrans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-98","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":660,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/19\/660\/","url_meta":{"origin":566,"position":0},"title":"South Loch Ness cycle","author":"John Davidson","date":"March 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been out on the bike around South Loch Ness with the CTC Highland group today, taking in the historic Clava Cairns and a wonderful lunch at Daviot Dairy. 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