Day 14: Inverkeithing to Pitlochry

Stats: 70.14m, odo 935.8, max 29.5, av 8.9, time 7:49:22, actual time 10 hours.
True to form it rained again this morning. No, really! I tried to wait it out but couldn't sulk like Achilles all day so levered myself out into the weather. I must say, the rainlegs are working out well. The main road was completely flooded at one point. Luckily I didn't need to go that way so could just watch the cars all queue to make their way through it. You'd think the people that do roads would have noted that it rains a bit here. Well a lot.
Fortunately for me it ceased after an hour or so - mostly - and there was even some sunshine. So it wasn't as miserable a day as yesterday, plus there was more to look at.
I have to say this; the bike routes in Scotland are really very good; thoughtfully done and very well marked.  Some signs not only tell you the next town or two but also the distance.
Soon after coming out of Inverkeithing I was off- road for a good stretch and then lanes to Bridge of Earn and Perth.
Perth was a bit much of a city for me; had a good lunch and left along the river path. Followed the Tay, which wasn't silvery as much as peat coloured with lots of fishermen up to their hips in it going after the salmon. Dunkeld was very pleasant and the bile route went through some very grand estate gates and parkland to the river before running alongside the main road to Pitlochry.
There was some kind of festival going on - heard music and there were lots of chaps in kilts, some carrying musical instruments, some carrying bagpipes ( sorry!). I tried the Youth Hostel - fully booked - didn't fancy the look of the backpacker's hostel, so had a quick dinner and came out of town to a campsite; commercial and noisy, but a site. Hope to get past planned stop tomorrow to a bunkhouse called Schloch - great name!  But there are a few little hills to get round or over first - the Cairngorms - so will have to see.