Second trip with Claire

June 2023 – July 2025

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- Day 53
- Sunday, August 6, 2023
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 103 m
- France Roncey 48.99065, -1.32829448°59’26” N 1°19’42” W
Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly
August 6, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
It was sunny at last so not only could we get washing dry, but also go for a proper walk, 12 km in all.

Using one of the maps we got from the VIC in Coutances on Friday, we first drove to Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly, found the starting point easily and started walking. Some was on small roads but most was in the countryside. After the rain it. Was pretty muddy in places so thank goodness for good walking boots! At one point we had to duck under an electric fence (and back again) to get around a flooded path.

The paths are not as well marked, defined or maintained as in the UK. However, we managed to not get lost and eventually worked their system of indicating walkways, which is not very efficient, to say the least!

After our walk, we made a short road trip to some of the villages around us, also to St Lo which is a fairly large town about 30 km away. We found a patisserie and grocery shop for the necessary purchases: wine, veg, baguette and patisseries.Read more
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- Day 46
- Sunday, July 30, 2023
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 58 m
- Scotland Old Town 55.948584, -3.18781155°56’55” N 3°11’16” W
Edinburgh
July 30, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Two service ringing for John; Portrait Gallery for me, as well as a bit of shopping. More exploring of the Old Town. Walk to Arthur’s Seat. Great dinner!
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- Day 45
- Saturday, July 29, 2023
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 58 m
- Scotland Old Town 55.948563, -3.18755955°56’55” N 3°11’15” W
Edinburgh
July 29, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Caught the train from Blair Atholl this morning to Edinburgh. The trip went quickly because we chatted with a very interesting fellow who is English but now lives in Scotland.

Even though it was drizzling when we arrived, our first impression of Edinburgh was ‘WOW!’ Our hotel is vey close to the station and just a stone’s throw from the Old Town. We did a fair bit of sightseeing before having a pizza dinner, then back to the hotel for a game of Scrabble. We played in an area on our 7th floor, overlooking the city. Perfect!Read more
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- Day 44
- Friday, July 28, 2023
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 126 m
- Scotland Fender Burn 56.764109, -3.83701856°45’51” N 3°50’13” W
Blair Atholl
July 28, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Day 2 on Blair Atholl. 17 km walk. Andy. Dinner at the Atholl Arms.
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- Day 43
- Thursday, July 27, 2023
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 125 m
- Scotland Fender Burn 56.76413, -3.83708856°45’51” N 3°50’14” W
Blair Atholl
July 27, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
The summer lasted a day: it rained last night and much of today. Fortunately it stopped enough for us to walk to the station to catch the train to Blair Atholl, which was about 20 mins late.

We had to walk nearly 2 km to our accommodation in Blair Athol in slight drizzle. This must be the prettiest town in Scotland! And our guesthouse is really lovely. We are pleased we’re staying here for two nights.

The weather cleared enough for us to have a walk mid afternoon, followed by a drink at one of the pubs. Whilst there, we chatted to a couple of women, two sisters from Dundee, who work for the NHS. They come here fairly often for a ‘break away from it all’. We had a vey interesting chat about a range of topics.

A picnic in our room tonight and a game of Scrabble.Read more
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- Day 42
- Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- Scotland River Ness 57.474823, -4.23260757°28’29” N 4°13’57” W
Inverness day 2
July 26, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We were picked up by taxi at 9:00 and taken to the beginning of our walk. 16 km mainly through forest, which was good as today it was actually sunny. 14 degrees max so hardly hot but it was the first summery day we’ve had for a while.

Not a vey inspiring walk; relatively easy terrain and very little elevation or descent. Some nice scenery.

A highlight of the day was chatting to some locals in the pub.Read more
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- Day 41
- Tuesday, July 25, 2023
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- Scotland River Ness 57.474806, -4.23253157°28’29” N 4°13’57” W
Inverness
July 25, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We were picked up by our friendly taxi driver, Don, who took us to Kyle of Lochaish to catch the train to Inverness. Instead of taking a ferry across to the mainland we ent over the Skye Bridge.

The train was late into Lochaish and even later into Inverness so we didn’t do the planned 10 km walk. Instead, after checking in to our quite reasonable accommodation we took our washing to the nearby laundry, went for a walk and ended up at Wetherspoons for dinner.Read more
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- Day 40
- Monday, July 24, 2023
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- Scotland Portree 57.411928, -6.19206557°24’43” N 6°11’31” W
Isle of Skye Day 3
July 24, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We were taxied to Portree, dropped our bags off at the Rosedale Hotel. After wandering around the village we took a bus to Old Man of Storr, which we walked. It wasn’t a long walk (about 5 kms) but was quite steep. Not raining but quite cool.

Picnicked in our room.Read more
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- Day 39
- Sunday, July 23, 2023
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 6 m
- Scotland Harrapool 57.237705, -5.88439957°14’16” N 5°53’4” W
Isle of Skye day 2
July 23, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
The guesthouse is delightful! We have access to a kitchen/dining room which means we can eat in! The owners, Vanessa and Martin, are friendly and welcoming and obviously enjoy being in the hospitality business.

20 km today, not too bad. Bit of an incline but very do-able. The weather continues to be kind.Read more
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- Day 37
- Friday, July 21, 2023
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Scotland Fort William Railway Station 56.819612, -5.1059856°49’11” N 5°6’22” W
Fort William Day 2
July 21, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Our second day was a bit of a no-day, as we spent 3 hours doing our washing! The laundry was a 20 min bus ride away and then waiting for the washing and drying to finish … at least we went for a walk in between, along Loch Linnhe.

We had the first thing go wrong when we received a late email from MacsAdventure saying that the Jacobite steam train trip was cancelled because it was ‘fully booked’. We knew this could not be right as we had our seat numbers from months ago! Not only that, but we were advised that we’d been booked on a much earlier ordinary train (giving us no time to have breakfast then walk to the station), and we would have 3 hours to kill in Mallaig before catching the ferry to Skye …

John sent off an email saying we were not happy; I checked out the story with. The train and found that due to breaches of OHS the train has not been running for at least a couple of weeks! So we should have been told earlier and been given the right reason. To add insult to injury, they emailed Craig last night (Australian time) so by the time he got back to us we’d already got on to them.

Anyway, it all worked out: Macs will reimburse us for the taxi to the station and the guesthouse will give us an early breakfast.

We ate in, courtesy of Tesco,Read more
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