What A Journey

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Thanks to London Bus News for this:

A 16-year-old schoolboy has broken the record for the fastest journey from Land's End to John O'Groats - by
public bus. The journey lasted four days ten hours & forty-four minutes at a cost of £170, whilst travelling 1,167
miles on 36 different buses to beat the previous record by nearly a day. Months was spent poring over bus
timetables to plan the quickest route on his epic journey. An exhausting but worthwhile trip, with little sleep,
finishing some days after midnight and starting the next day again before 6am.

Day-1 (Monday)
07:21 - Service 1 from Land's End to Penzance, arriving at 08:30
09:33 - Service 18 from Penzance to Truro, arriving at 11:16
11:45 - Service 594 from Truro to Wadebridge, arriving at 12:55
14:00 - Service 510 from Wadebridge to Exeter, arriving at 16:32
17:00 - Service 1B from Exeter to Willand, arriving at 17:58
18:22 - Service 22 from Willand to Taunton, arriving at 19:12
19:55 - Service 21 from Taunton to Bridgwater, arriving at 20:39

Day-2 (Tuesday)
05:48 - Service 21 from Bridgwater to Weston-super-Mare, arriving at 07:10
07:32 - Service X1 from Weston-super-Mare to Bristol, arriving at 08:41
09:02 - Service 47 from Bristol to Yate, arriving at 09:47
10:15 - Service 84 from Yate to Wotton-under-Edge, arriving at 10:53
11:30 - Service 40 from Wotton-under-Edge to Stroud, arriving at 12:10
12:50 - Service 46 from Stroud to Cheltenham, arriving at 13:36
13:45 - Service 801 from Cheltenham to Moreton-in-Marsh, arriving at 14:55 (did not arrive until 15:06)
15:15 - Service 22 from Moreton-in-Marsh to Stratford-upon-Avon, arriving at 16:20
17:05 - Service X20 from Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham, arriving at 18:37
19:15 - Service X51 from Birmingham to Walsall, arriving at 19:47
20:05 - Service 2 from Walsall to Cannock, arriving at 20:40
21:00 - Service 74 from Cannock to Stafford, arriving at 21:30
21:53 - Service 101 from Stafford to Hanley, arriving at 22:47
23:19 - Service 20 from Hanley to Crewe, arriving at 00:10

Day-3 (Wednesday)
06:04 - Service 38 from Crewe to Macclesfield, arriving at 07:00
07:15 - Service 130 from Macclesfield to Manchester, arriving at 09:22
10:28 - Service 184 from Manchester to Huddersfield, arriving at 12:24
12:45 - Service X6 from Huddersfield to Leeds, arriving at 14:07
14:40 - Service 843 from Leeds to Scarborough, arriving at 17:37
18:15 - Service X93 from Scarborough to Middlesbrough, arriving at 20:23
20:15 - Service X10 from Middlesbrough to Newcastle, arriving at 22:23

Day-4 (Thursday)
10:33 - Service X15 from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed, arriving at 12:58
13:55 - Service 253 from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Edinburgh, arriving 16:08
18:45 - Service X59 from Edinburgh to Guardbridge, arriving at 20:27
21:02 - Service 99A from Guardbridge to Dundee, arriving at 21:02

Day-5 (Friday)
06:30 - Service X7 from Dundee to Aberdeen, arriving at 09:01
09:25 - Service 10 from Aberdeen to Inverness, arriving at 13:14
14:40 - Service X99 from Inverness to Dunbeath, arriving at 16:56
17:01 - Service X97 from Dunbeath to John O'Groats, arriving at 18:02
18:02: Three minute walk to the John O'Groats sign, arriving at 18:05

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Some planning indeed! If I were to do 'lejog' think that's how I'd do it...sit back and enjoy the ride  :)
I read this book last year http://www.amazon.co.uk/Move-Along-Please-Mark-Mason/dp/1847947107 The author took a different route and a few more days to complete.For local interest he did the 144 from Worcester to Brum then onto Lichfield-Burton-Derby. Very good read and recommended  8)