Day 22 The Wonder of Creation!

Monday 09/04/2018 Caledonian Hotel Ullapool Room 304

Today was a day of total Euphoria, from seeing God’s amazing creation in all its glory!
My cup runneth over from just pure joy in seeing the delights I have today!

Before we left had to give Mum a call it’s her birthday today, tired last night as it was just the beginning of her day her birthday, but they didn’t hear the call! Finally got onto them they are in Biloela having a holiday at a Hotel Cruickshank! They both looked good but very hard to talk to them on a video message, but somehow we managed very well!

Then it was time to go.......We set off with the day looking totally miserable again low hanging clouds, fine misty droplets falling onto the windscreen as we drive. Going through little village after little village as we head further north the homes started to look like they have a bit of character compared to the lower parts we have just come from... Also noting that the moss of the trees and ground is all dried up not bright green and alive as it was as we travelled through England. Even though it has had snow everywhere and it has mainly melted it is extremely dry.... making everything look old and dead!

However as we driving into the mountains the snow capped peaks start to reveal themselves in all their glory, and glorious they are!

A quick stop beside one of the earlier Lochs to take a pic of the low hanging clouds over the water, though this looked amazing... until after we had stopped at Fort William at Maccas to grab a coffee then head on, from here on the world came alive. The mountains covered in snow with Lochs and Lakes reflecting their wonder below like mirrors everywhere ohh what majesty it really was!

I truly was awe struck, to see it in real life not in a movie is just breath taking....

The roads seem to lead us further and further into more and more beauty. We had made the decision to side track at Fort William to head over to Glenfinnan to see the Viaduct used in the Harry Potter Movie.... We had been here before but only at a distance when we did our Trip 2 years ago... I was fascinated then by it and didn’t have the time to go to it only see it from afar.... So we get to it and realise the track once to it has been shut off, this was after paying to park, we had to walk a bit of a distance on another road to get to it and the car park to it was free.... Darn.... as we had such a long trip today we didn’t have the time I had hoped to spend wandering round here sadly... So a mad dash up to it and wow it really is huge and unreal to see close up what Feat it must have been to build this huge Viaduct built in 1887 John saw a plague with its date on it, as there was no information about it around, plus it would seem its on private land... and the area was very unkept and run down....What a shame for such an amazing structure to be left in such an unkept way. I tried to take a panoramic of it but it really was too big and also where you had to stand to get its pic was a terrible spot to a actually get the angle right! Ohh I forgot we thought it was disused until the next thing a train comes speeding through and over the top of us wow unreal that it’s still being used, just wonderful.....
Finishing here after we head over to the Loch and to see the Jacobite Statue again that we also saw 2 years ago, then back to the car and off back to a Fort William before heading north again.

From here we set our main destination Ullapool... the scenery really didn’t disappoint at any stage, continued right to the door our our hotel!

We did have a short stop for a cuppa towards the end of our long trip as both of us were very tired, so we pulled up at this little cafe in the highway, really quaint set up all young women serving and very friendly, food looked good but very over priced, so just shared a cake thing. Both wanted something savoury today but too expensive here! I went to the loo and you could sure tell young women were running this little shop, there were buttons all over the toilet paper holder, bling in the light switches and dainty touches everywhere... I laughed thinking how all the blokes going to the loo here how they would find it all. Anyway had the cuppa and off we went again on the last leg of the trip!

The Mountains even around Ullapool itself have snow on them making the bay look breath taking. A huge big ferry was in as we approached not sure where it goes?

Our hotel, well when I booked you should and I should know full well, don’t go by the pictures on the web! But I did and it said Sea views well we got heather the room on the web or the sea views, but in the back blocks of the hotel. Plus a very squeaky floor to boot!
Again you get what you pay for however we did pay more for here thing we were getting something a little better, in honesty even though our hotels have been cheap none have been awful all having something we found great about! Still trying to decide that about this except for the lady on the desk who was very helpful and very friendly!

For dinner we had planned to stay in but when we saw the menu it was decided let’s eat out... So we set off Down the street try another place, but all the places that only being 2 down the bottom street served pretty much the same as here... So we tried the top street and yep found a pub that served yeah for John Nachos he was over joyed.... Me well guess what I had yep Soup again. Johns was amazing so tasty I even loved it with Jalapeños..... mine was Broccoli and Cheese soup I should have known I would with it being so creamy but ended up crook as from it! Bloody food I really am over it! So off to bed with drugs on board hoping my tummy would settle soon, it took ages... So that’s life just need to live with it and get on.

We are both really tired at present been on the go for Few weeks now so plan to have a slow day here tomorrow..........Read more