Yes, I know it says Fort William in the title, so we should have finished this West Highland Way thingy, but we haven't. Yet. Our billet tonight is Achintee Farm, which is pretty much clinging to the lower slopes of Ben Nevis, and is therefore a mile or two out of town. Thus we don't get to the official end of the WHW (we think it's a fibre-glass fellow sat on a bench or similar) until tomorrow morning, as we pass through Fort William to get to the start of The Great Glen Way. Regular readers of this tripe will know that we are to walk two days of the GGW to get us to Invergarry, where we left our car a week or so ago at The Glengarry Castle Hotel. We will then be having six days R&R at the hotel to get us back to near normal.
The walk today seemed to last forever. After climbing out of Kinlochleven, which took an hour or so, we entered another absolute wilderness with just a military road passing through it. Shiona felt that this expanse of raw emptiness was even wilder and more remote than Rannoch Moor, which is certainly saying something. Fortunately the weather was wonderfully kind once again. To end, just like yesterday, we spent interminable miles coming down forestry tracks and similar into civilisation which had been in our eyeline for what seemed like hours. All four feet are complaining like crazy tonight. The bonus was that the pub, for evening meal, was no more than 100 metres from the B&B. There is a god!
To the geezer and his missus. Enjoying the blog - don't know how you doing it - you have our extreme admiration.
ReplyDeletePS; Our Ben says, glad he's not there!
Hi there Malcolm & Julia!
DeleteWhat a great surprise to find that you are reading this drivel. We have been lucky enough to find almost all the B&Bs/hotels have wi-fi, so keeping the blog up to date has been quite easy. Sending photos sometimes tests the signal strength a bit, but we get there in the end. Just one day to walk tomorrow and then we can put our feet up.