Blog posts from October, 2020

Breakfast at the Inveroan was as good as the dinner.  It dealt with the last vestiges of the whisky as me and the walkers chatted over our plans for the day.  Some were going to Kingshouse 10 miles away and others on to Kinlochleven which is 18 miles or so from the hotel.  I was heading for Fort William and had around 33 miles left to go.I packed everything up and hit the road a little later th…

Day 2 broke with a comprehensive clag out on the low peak outside the B&B bedroom window though with a tiny patch of brilliant sun so I thought it could go either way today.  Spoiler alert, it wasn't the sunny one.The one solid thing about the accommodation was the breakfast and the granola course would have done me on any normal day but I shoved in a toast course and a veggie fry-up course for g…

With COVID raging and at the time of writing no prospect of it reigning in its raging any time soon a getaway or if you like a forgetaway was in order.  I'd toyed with a route around Knoydart - bits of the Cape Wrath course - and then the Great Glen Way, both of which obviously meant the immediate purchase of maps and despite rejecting both in the end, no map is ever wasted.  You can't have too …