Glenfinnan House Hotel Fort William

... very easy walking and the sun is out but after a few miles I'm a bit bored of the rather relentless straightness of the path! Still I meet some nice people en route - a pair of walkers reccying the route for a charity event next year, an older Australian guy who had never done any walking in his life and had come to Scotland to tackle the West Highland and Great ...

Today's section sees a route up over the hill into Fort Augustus and then onto the Caledonian Canal through a series of locks to reach Loch Oich. <br><br>About four miles in I meet Ian, who is parked up off the path and is frantically making sandwiches to feed what looks like a small army. He's the support team for a group of 14 former Coldstream Guards who are walking the route to ...

The rest of the drive up has been lovely but it's all been a bit of a warm up to this .. it's stunning up here. We took a roundabout scenic route up from Callander to Fort William which was beautiful..up through Glencoe etc.. We topped it off by popping out for a 'quick' drive out for an hour or so after we checked in at 5.30. Well we ended up taking a slightly bigger drive than anticipated all around the A861and ...

... town!). We walked around the port and took more pictures and took in the sites and smells of a working port! We had a little impromptu show by a harbor seal who apparently was looking for food.<br><br>We headed back down through the highlands and on to Balquhidder. There is a church there where Rob Roy MacGregor and his family are buried. The church was only a couple of ...

<br><br>Leaving here we carried on up to the infamous Glencoe &#8211; along the way we past through Doune which course for you Monty Python freaks you should know of the cow tossing over the grand castle... well that in fact was the Doune castle in the movie! From here we continued and past through Callandar &#8211; was a MUST stop at The Fudge Shop which sold &#8220;Scotland's best tablet&#8221 ...

... hard to believe there is anything so beautiful in all the world. <br><br>Keli said it's something how nature can be so beautiful and in so many DIFFERENT ways! The beauty of the coastline in Big Sur and the beauty of the majestic Rocky Mountains are so different from the beauty of Glencoe! (Glen means &#8220;valley&#8221; in Scottish by the way...)<br><br>We had already determined to drive through Glascow on our way back to our hostel in Edinburgh. What a great choice ...

KELI -<br><br>Tuesday morning we had to say goodbye to our gracious hosts. I had a particularly hard time saying goodbye to little Robyn, with whom I had bonded so well. <br><br> Chris and Rachel took us to get our rental car and even decided to drive us partway to our hotel in the highlands! We were so happy they did because driving on the right-side of the car and shifting with your left-hand was difficult enough, but there were also two detours on our journey because of road ...

... lets go'. Goggles? everyone opened their kit bags and swiftly donned ski goggles, I stared back in puzzlement, 'damn goggles'. Simon turned around 'where's your goggles'. 'I haven't got any' 'They were on the list' 'oh right, sorry' I had to think quick, 'will my sunglasses do?' Shacking his head he disappeared over the lip of the trench and I followed in my golf kit and cheap sunnies. As I cleared the lip of the trench and hit the summit I was floored by a ...

... and his family. After dinner we all CRAMMED back into her car built for 4 and rode back together, friends like it or not. Day 3, Rowardennan to Inverarnan. Calf felt stiff but walkable when I got up, so took some drugs and decided to give it a decided to give it a go - we had breakfast with the Danish family and a hysterical English couple, the gentleman of which told Eric he knew someone in Seattle, and did he know him? Frasier, brother named Niles? Took Eric ...

Twelve of us headed north, 3 Canadians, 2 Americans, one French, 4 Aussies and one girl from Taiwan, me the only kiwi. We drove through Perth, stayed at Fort Augustus, the haunted Carbisdale Castle, two nights on the Isle of Skye, Oban, then back to Edinburgh. Enjoyed plenty of pitstops along the way to explore ...