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In case you are wondering why stays in certain “towns” are more than a night, it is because the mileage between accommodations is too long—as in over thirty mi.— to manage in a day, so someone has to pick you up, bring you to B and B and take you back the next morning.  YouContinue reading “Overfingland +Moffat July 14+15”

I think I lost a day somewhere but after a day like today, I couldn’t begin to remember.  It was navigational hell, getting lost again and again and again in high, lumpy, wet grass on which, when you take a step, you don’t know how far down your foot will go or how boggy theContinue reading “Stroanpatrick+Sanquhar July 12+13”

This is a bothy. Isn’t it cute?   It is where people who are camping can hang out, and, I assume sleep.  Para mí, I am much happier at House O the Hill, in one of two rooms over a bar where I ate the absolutely WORST “hamburger” imaginable.  But after the day’s exertions, anything wouldContinue reading “Bargrennan July 10”

Walk today was only nine miles (felt longer), so did it in reverse in order to have the afternoon to visit Castle Kennedy.  Only a few navigational errors, but it is always frustrating and can be quite disconcerting when you make them.  The trick is not to get anxious, but just try not to! NeverContinue reading “New Luce+Castle Kennedy July 09”

8:20 ferry from Brodick to Ardrossan, taxi to Ayr, train to Stranraer.  The ferry, a great big car ferry, is so smooth I thought we were late in departing, when, in fact, we were already quite underway!  Taxi was waiting as promised, but then had 1 1/2 hours before train time. Normally that would notContinue reading “Stranraer and onward July 06+07+08”

The combination of challenging and boring continued today but with new levels of difficult.  Bennan Head and Dippin Head, two large boulder fields, had to crossed.  No, they did not.  There are alternate routes, but it was not raining and the tide was right for both exertions, so I undertook them.  It was V EContinue reading “Lagg to Whiting Bay+Brodick July 04+05”

Today’s walk is photo-less due to my having neglected to put the card back into the camera, not a bad day to have been so careless as I hardly took any pictures.  The walk consisted of two distinct parts: there was the deadly dull road walking punctuated by two take-care-now-finding-your-way-through-the rocks sections, which were kindContinue reading “Machrie+Lagg, July 2+3”

This is not Everest or even K2, or Mont Blanc, but a view from the B&B of Goatfel, the highest point on Arran, and it needed to be climbed, of course.  There is another way to get to Sannox, but more of that later.  For now it is enough to know that all energy andContinue reading “To Sannox and Lochranza June 30+July 01”

A train from Edinburgh to Glasgow leaves every 15 minutes and takes one hour.  Very civilised.  Dropped baggage off at hotel, a cute, modest hostelry six flights up (by elevator) above some other commercial enterprise and right next door to the station whence I depart tomorrow, not to be confused with the station at whichContinue reading “Glasgow, coming and going June 28-29/18”

Sirens as in fire alarm screeching at 9:30 a.m. at which time I WAS STILL ASLEEP.  ¡No me lo puedo creer! That wee dose of Valium I took last night to help fight jet lag could have moved me five  time zones farther and still have done the job.  This extremely late wake-up and get-upContinue reading “Edinburgh, June 27/18”