Farewell Fort William

This morning we begrudgingly left our wonderful accommodation, The Grange and hosts, Jenni and Neil to make our way to Glasgow. The drive takes about 2.5 hours and we made our way along the A82 past Ben Nevis and Glencoe and then onto the A898 through some beautiful country past Crianlarich and along Loch Lomond, the scenery is quite different from the Highlands, with large wooded areas and more dense vegetation. We also passed Dumbarton and Erskine as we then made our way into the centre of Glasgow on the M8 and M77. We dropped off our hire car and then Brian the shuttle bus driver took us to our hotel, the Fraser Suites. We were able to check in early which was handy.

For our tour to Skye which starts in the morning we have luggage restrictions, so we had to take our large cases to Central Station to store them for the next 3 days. This is not cheap but we don’t have a choice.

After getting our luggage sorted we went to the post office to ship a few things back to Australia, this took a while to do but was much easier than when I have done it in France in previous years. Administrative jobs complete we walked around Glasgow for a bit, stopped at Mòr Bakery, which has become a favourite whilst in Scotland and had a late lunch.

We made our way back towards our hotel which is located in the Merchant City area. We also had a look at the lovely old clock tower in High street and the Tron Theatre, which was formerly known as the Tron Kirk. The building is now home to the Tron Theatre Company and serves as a producing house for contemporary theatrical work.

We will be having a quiet night relaxing in our rooms as it has been go, go, go all week.Read more