Out the window in the morning and there was nair a cloud
in the sky (it was a small window).
Breakfast dealt with, bags packed and delivered to the pickup room, we were off, to Tesco’s to get some rations for the day.
Tesco’s have everything and a pretty good range of fresh rolls or sandwiches, they also have phone cards!!!
The WHW starts in the middle of the Milngavie shopping mall, with a suitable obelisk and signage (sigh).
Glenalva is neat spacious but as usual up-stairs. Alison, our host is charming, and offers to take us to the oldest pub in Scotland for dinner, the …….. We arrive in the nick of time as t’s Friday, and the dining room is filling and people are streaming in the door, looking for a table.
We have a very acceptable Australian Shiraz, One Chain, and a slightly less spectacular salad and chips. Everything comes with chips as a choice, and they don’t know how to make chips. The wine at 4 pounds 95 pence, which equates to about $9.00 a large 250ml glass is as I said pretty good, apart from the cost.
We saw a Jacobs Creek for about 17 pound 95 pence, which equates to $32 a bottle, egad!!
It’s a mile back to base and sleep, as we have a 23 km day ahead of us. Before sleep, I try my new Tesco phone card, it doesn’t work, and the phone won’t recognise it!! Turns out my phone is still locked!! Bugger. Check the internet and sort out a fix and overnight the phone is unlocked and working (in 3 days I had already used 20Mb of data @ $3 a Mb, staying with my Telstra SIM).
Today was my father’s birthday, he would have been 106!!
Breakfast dealt with, bags packed and delivered to the pickup room, we were off, to Tesco’s to get some rations for the day.
Tesco’s have everything and a pretty good range of fresh rolls or sandwiches, they also have phone cards!!!
The WHW starts in the middle of the Milngavie shopping mall, with a suitable obelisk and signage (sigh).
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| Start West Highland Way |
The start is along the banks of the Allander Water and
seem to be linked to the water supply from Loch Lomond.
It’s pretty easy walking with a few river-type banks to
manage, being the only real climbs, however you ARE climbing all the time, as
you suddenly pop out onto a bitumen road that leads to a gate that looks down a
very pretty valley, Strath Blane. |
| Strath Blane |
The Way then picks p the water supply line again and
follows it for a long way in this pleasant valley, however hits a 4 km stretch
of bitumen which is tiring, however the view out over the fields t the hill
around is pretty rewarding.
Finally, we get to our accommodation at Glenalva B &
B, to find no one home. So its bags down and off to the pub and a few
cleansings ales. Problem is, the pub’s a mile away so it a bit of a struggle
home after a few pints under the belt.Glenalva is neat spacious but as usual up-stairs. Alison, our host is charming, and offers to take us to the oldest pub in Scotland for dinner, the …….. We arrive in the nick of time as t’s Friday, and the dining room is filling and people are streaming in the door, looking for a table.
We have a very acceptable Australian Shiraz, One Chain, and a slightly less spectacular salad and chips. Everything comes with chips as a choice, and they don’t know how to make chips. The wine at 4 pounds 95 pence, which equates to about $9.00 a large 250ml glass is as I said pretty good, apart from the cost.
We saw a Jacobs Creek for about 17 pound 95 pence, which equates to $32 a bottle, egad!!
It’s a mile back to base and sleep, as we have a 23 km day ahead of us. Before sleep, I try my new Tesco phone card, it doesn’t work, and the phone won’t recognise it!! Turns out my phone is still locked!! Bugger. Check the internet and sort out a fix and overnight the phone is unlocked and working (in 3 days I had already used 20Mb of data @ $3 a Mb, staying with my Telstra SIM).
Today was my father’s birthday, he would have been 106!!
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