And so to Scotland....we left Keswick and travelled to Luss on the west coast of Loch Lomond. The weather was unusually (for Scotland) fantastic. The campsite was right on the shore of the Loch so we spent a lot of time sitting on the edge of the water watching the sun come up or go down...
Malc was adventurous enough to go swimming - it wasn't as cold as he thought!
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| Romours of a monster in Loch Lomond are not founded! |
Great cycle paths along the Loch and into Helensburgh meant that we cycled 30 miles on Sunday.
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| A lovely cottage near Luss |
The weather was so good that the Loch was full of people picknicking and swimming.
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| Sunday at Luss pier...... |
On Monday we cycled in the opposite direction to Tarbet and took a boat across the Loch - by now we had had three consecutive days of great weather..................righteous or what?
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| Loch Lomond sea-plane |
On Tuesday 26th July we moved on to Oban..... only 67 miles away. Again, the weather was fantastic and we had an amazing fish lunch at Oban harbour and bought live langoustine and scallops for dinner that night. We also bought some samphir and fresh crab.......All lovely. I underestimated my ability to cook LIVE Langoustines so Malc was chef that evening! (no trtuh to the rumour that they squeak when put in boiling water............)
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| Oban scenes |
Our site for the next three nights was about 13 miles North of Oban in an old walled garden on Forestry Commission land.
We took a short cycle that evening down to Loch Creran .....................................................................
It had bike paths and walking paths running next to the site. One of the paths was the Sustrans route 78 from Oban to Fort William and part of it was still being built whilst we were cycling on it! We decided this was probably the best and most picturesque cycle path so far. We met a few people doing "Le Jog" which apparently stands for Lands End to John O'Groats - except that thye were doing it the other way around - 1000 miles over 2 weeks....eek!!
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| Malc on thre bridge - showing the way.. |
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| Stalker Castle in the Loch |
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| What a place for a lunch stop |
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| Lance Calthorpe (!!!) completes the Tour de Loch.... |
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