Month: April 2017

  • Laggan Locks to Inverness and home

    I remember from long walks that the third or fourth day marks a transition: the sore bits hurt but the body adapts. This morning we both woke up sore: the...

  • Stratherrick, Fort Augustus and Loch Oich

    Our send off from Foyers Bay House was a good breakfast and the most enormous pack lunches. (Looking ahead through my description of food, I find that the word ‘enormous’...

  • Inverness to Foyers

    We arrived at Inverness train station after ‘the most boring train journey ever’. As we ticked off the stations approaching Inverness (Elgin, Nairn, Forres),  we saw grey clouds and treetops...

  • Being where you are

    Today my daughter Eleanor and I will set out to cycle the Great Glen Way. This is part of our family project to learn where we live, to understand this...