Up at 0600 to get ourselves sorted out (no doubt we'll get slicker as the days go by) before the taxi showed up at 0710 to take us to Spean Bridge for the 0755 train south to Dumbarton
Central, which was due to arrive at 1059. It arrived at 1059! Incredible; this never happens in our neck of the woods, and this train had traversed all sorts of inhospitable landscape. We got the first taxi off the rank to whisk us the 20 minutes to Milngavie, where we assembled a packed lunch in the last M&S we'll see for a while, and set off on the stroke of noon.
Today was fairly flat and the weather was kind. Only one wet boot when Alan placed a foot in what looked like a tussock, and was in fact not much short of a swamp. But the Berghaus held out and the sock stayed dry. The quirkiest event today was finding a lady selling home-baked goodies in a copse near Killearn, not far from the walk end. Her daughter is trying to raise £4500 to pay for her trip to volunteer as an English teacher in Chile, and this was one chosen method. Today, while daughter was off walking neighbours' dogs to earn a few more bob, mum was manning the stall.
In the evening, cousin Joe, who lives in Drymen, kindly picked us up and ferried us to a pub for an evening meal. On the way home, tomorrow's packed lunch was put together in the Spar shop.
NB
There are a couple of techie difficulties getting in the way of super-smooth blogging, particularly sending photos attached to the text. In the short term, it may be a case of sending photos singly.
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