45 miles in 3 days with 10kg backpacks....fun!!
Midges are horrible. Scotland is beautiful. Walking is fun. Sepha and I got a flight up to Inverness on Friday night, scored a free lift to our hostel thanks to the lovely ladies on the Helpdesk and checked in to our night’s residence – a very odd hostel in the centre of Inverness. To check in, you had to phone the owner, who directed me to a door with a coded padlock on it, which released two keys to get into the hostel and then our room. I felt a bit like I was in the Crystal Maze. We headed down to the bus station and had a breakfast of ‘tatty scones’ (so delicious, where can I get them here?), a bacon sandwich, and a peppermint slice, and got the early bus to Fort Augustus, marvelling at the views on the A82. It was a misty morning and the clouds were low, covering the mountains either side of Loch Ness and giving it an eerie feel. What took an hour and 15 minutes to drive, would take us three days to walk back along – yikes! David and Cesca were