dagnabbit! I can't figure out how to insert photos that we have on this very iPad! Any thoughts? Oh well... I will get it sooner or later and then the floodgates will open!
Yesterday Drew and I took the train from Glasgow to Fort William, and Lizzie and Tred took the bus. we got there at exactly the same time - perfect. Along the way we saw ferns, wild rampant rhododendrons, forests of larch, and fields of yellow flowers... Gorse? We saw ponies and sheep in fields, and dogs on te train. I think I snoozed a little...
Once we met up, we got a taxi (the driver had moved here to be on the water. His niece is at Harvard gdoing some post-doc, and we also laughed over Bill Bryson's "A walk in the woods". It was funny because Bill Bryson, in "Letters from a Small Island" makes the point that you run into these highly educated people in England all over the place, and here was one quoting Bryson! Get it? Anyway...) to the Gantocks B&B here we stayed last night. Small and lovely. they gave uS a lovely tea with shortbread.
around 6:30 it was drizzling but we walked into town and made a stop at the whisky shop! Tim and Merc we wish you had been there. so many nice drams. and in good form, they wanted to give us wee tastes. Mmmmm how to warm the soul! they buy their won casks and bottle the Ben Nevis whisky without any coloring which they are very proud of because it is naturally delicious without caramel coloring. Etc etc etc! whisky talk is happy talk. He took a picture of us and then we went across the street to the Grog and Gruel Pub.
If someone tells us there will be a 45 minute wait at home, forget it. But here, with no where else to go, fine! Lizze and Tred went to pick up some necessities at the shop around the corner, and Drew and I held down some barstools. He had Black Killein from Isle of Skye Brewery, and I had a bit of Bruichladdich. Sorry don't know how old! When L&T came back we went upstairs to our table near the window looking out on the street. we could see a little girl who was probably supposed to be going to sleep (8 pm) playing with her little stuffed animals in a 3rd floor window across the street. See I would love to insert that photo!
Drew got the prize for the most local and adventurous dining, with haggis and a Wilson boar burger. Lizzie and I tried the vegetarian haggis but that was easy. we walked back to the B&B and got our gear ready for Day One.
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