Some Statistics

Just to clear up a few points, some statistics on just what this ride is going to entail:

The UK's coastline is long in comparison to the UK's area and to the coasts of some other, similar sized countries; - the length of the UK coastline is around 12,500kms or 7,760 miles. We estimate (piece of string!) that it is about 5000 miles around the coast of mainland Britain - excluding all islands.

Around 60% of our coastline is located in Scotland and the off-shore islands.

It is around one and a half times longer than the coast of Italy - 7,600 kms.

It is more than three and a half times longer than the coastline of Spain - 4,964 kms.

It is more than five times longer than the coastline of France - 3427 kms

The coastline of China is 15,273 kms long.

The coastline of Greece is even longer than the UK's at around 13,600 kms. The reason being that in common with the UK, Greece is made up of many islands.

(stats taken from Wikipedia)