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I've been cycling in Scotland for the last week. I was genuinely impressed by how patient drivers in the Highlands are: almost without exception they'd wait behind us for a safe place to overtake, even up to a minute or more of winding rural road. (I've had similar experiences in rural England, notably Somerset.) Given Scotland's notoriously short life expectancy, they might have an excuse for getting a move on, so it was reassuring to see such courtesy and consideration.
(Let's hope TV nonentity chef James Martin, who issued a craven apology yesterday for boasting about trying to run over cyclists in a newspaper column, is too dim to find his way up there.)
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Finding this too in South West Scotland, at least in the rural roads.
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