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Milngavie Railway Station

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    • Day 3

      Christening a street in Glasgow

      June 27, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌧 63 °F

      The day before starting the West Highland Way kicked off with a bottle of fine Bordeaux falling from a sleeve in my travel pack on the walk to the train station on a busy street in Glasgow. Thankfully Joe was there to help me pick up the chards...
      I felt better on the short train ride to Milngavie ( moo-guy) when the next to last stop was in Bearsden (reminded me of Bridger.) Didn’t let the rain bother me too much…very reminiscent of a late winter day at home…chilly and wet. Reminded us that the weather is going to be a challenge…
      We walked to our accommodations for the night and received a brief orientation as to what to expect tomorrow. We then retired to the bar to find other wayfarers.
      It was all Boxer could do in not starting a conversation with these other walkers..possibly because they were not communicating in English. Reminder #2 this walking holiday in Scotland is an international affair.
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    • Day 1

      Ankunft Milngavie

      May 1, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Nachdem mer en verspötete Flug vo Züri uf Heathrow, London gha hend und de eis ghetz dur de Flughafe zum no de Aschlussflug z verwütsche nach Glasgow, wo zum guete Glück au Verspötig gha hed, simer guet am Startpunkt vo üsere Wanderig acho. Jetzt heissts nomal dusche und d Nacht immne richtig Bett gnüsse, ab Morn gids nur no s Zelt.Read more

    • Day 1

      Tag 1 - Start in Milngavie (21 km)

      September 5, 2020 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      Wir sind am Tag zuvor in Glasgow spät gelandet und haben dort in einem günstigen Hotel die Nacht verbracht. Früh morgens sind wir dann per Uber nach Milngavie gefahren und sind dort zum offiziellen Startpunkt gewandert. Grade nach der Eröffnung des Trails durch Corona, war der Startpunkt früh morgens schon relativ gut besucht und wir haben drei andere kleine und größere Gruppen getroffen, die den Weg ebenfalls starten wollten. Ich hatte vorher gelesen, dass viele Leute die erste Etappe des WHW überspringen, da sie die Landschaft dort nicht so spektakulär finden wie in späteren Abschnitten. Wobei das zum Teil wohl stimmen mag, finde ich nicht, dass es der erste Teil weniger Wert ist zu laufen als spätere Abschnitte. Noch relativ zivilisationsnah sieht man schöne kleine Hütten, Park-ähnliche Waldstücke und einzelne kleinere Seen, die sofort einen guten Ersteindruck hinterlassen. Nach wenigen Kilometern kommt dann auch die erste richtige Weitsicht über das schottische Gelände und man bekommt einen guten Vorgeschmack dafür, was noch kommen wird. Im Verlauf des Weges gab es zwei Möglichkeiten direkt am Weg Getränke, Midges-Schutz und kleine Snacks mit Bargeld (oder zum Teil Paypal) auf Vertrauensbasis zu erwerben. Da die natürlichen Wasserquellen in diesem Bereich, noch nicht so zahlreich sind wie in späteren Abschnitten, haben wir das Angebot gerne wahrgenommen. Gegen ca. 17 Uhr kamen wir schon an unseren Zielpunkt des Tages an: Ein kleines Waldstück etwa 1 km hinter Drymen, welches wir uns vorher über Google Earth rausgesucht hatten. Weiter konnten wir an diesem Tag nicht gehen, da direkt hinter diesem Spot die offizielle "Camping Management Zone" anfängt und dort für die nächsten 25 km Wildcampen strikt verboten ist. Nach kurzer Suche in dem sumpfigen und von Moos geprägten Waldstück haben wir einen geschützten ebenerdigen Platz gefunden, um unser MSR Elixier aufzustellen. Während des Kochens kamen im Verlaufe des Abends viele andere Wanderer dazu und haben sich mit ausreichend Abstand ebenfalls in dem Waldstück niedergelassen, was für eine coole Atmosphäre gesorgt hat. Die Nacht war sehr ruhig und entspannt. Probleme mit Midges gab es (noch) nicht und es flogen nur einzelne Fliegen umher. Die Temperaturen waren mehr als erträglich für unsere Ausrüstung, sodass wir nach gutem Schlaf in den nächsten Tag starten konnten.Read more

    • Milngavie to Drymen

      June 27, 2019 in Scotland ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

      If you are ever flying into Glasgow and your plane almost clips a BNB situated on a promontory just north of Glasgow on it's landing descend, you will know where I stayed last night. Glasgow airport also doesn't seem to have night time landing restrictions. Throw in the fact that the room was warm because Scotland is having a warm spell and the Scottish houses are designed for cold weather and not hot weather, I didn't sleep that well. I really struggled out of bed in the morning. Fortunately I was met with a very hardy breakfast and headed off to start the WHW. I snapped an additional photo of the start marker and I was off. After about 15 minutes I caught up to two couples who looked like they were from the US from the way they were dressed. I said hello and asked them where they were from and they replied Calgary. I looked more closely at them and realized that one of them was an old medical school classmate from my days at Western University. I said I know you, you're Winnie Meeweise, we went to school together. He looked very surprised. I said I'm Rob West we went to Medical School together. Winnie was someone I didn't get to know very well at University but probably should have. It's funny who you get to know in a large class and who you don't. Winnie works as a sports medicine doctor in Calgary now. He and his wife and friends are hiking the trail over 7 days while I am hiking it over 8. After chatting a little I hiked ahead as they were moving a little slower. They had flown in yesterday and I think were a little jet lagged. Hopefully we will cross paths again. The trail was fairly flat and followed some secondary roads. It was very well signed but I was happy to have the map. I checked it a couple of times to ensure I wasn't going the wrong way. I stopped to eat my lunch at the Glengoyne distillery. I had just missed the tour but as it was a hot day all the doors were open and I could look into the distillery and see much of the workings. Often I find these places have nice gardens which I quite enjoy. The grounds were well kept but no garden. I chatted with one of the workers in a storage area away from the main building as I came off the trail who was moving some large barrels. I asked him what one barrel was worth and he told me that one of the barrels in the building from 1971 had sold last week for a million pounds. It was starting to warm up so I pushed on through the countryside to Drymen taking some breaks in the shade along the way. I had left at 9 and made it into Drymen by 1:30. My BNB didn't open until 3 so I did a little blogging at the library. No blisters but I was a little tired.Read more

    • National Portrait Gallery

      June 25, 2019 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      After the Edinburgh castle I decided to check out the National Portrait Gallery as it was only a short walk from my accommodation. It was really quite good . It contained portraits of notable Scottish people of which there are many. I was lucky enough to tag onto a docent led tour for a group of U of Pitt university students who were in Pittsburgh for a study abroad month. The docent led us to all of the notable Scottish writer's portraits and lead a discussion about each of them. Robby Burns, Walter Scott and Robbie Louis Stevenson were all covered. I felt that I was back in school again. I don't think the students knew how lucky they were to have been there. I also enjoyed the portrait of JM Barrie the writer of Peter Pan. I love the movie about JM Barrie and the writing of Peter Pan called finding Neverland. It is very touching. Lots of wonderful portraits of noble Scots. I capped the visit off with a cup of tea and a lemon chocolate coconut square in the cafe but felt that I deserved it after such a busy day. One can make it out just behind the pot of tea in the photo.

      After supper I hiked about 20 minutes from my flat up Carleton hill to command a nice view of the city. It was an easy walk and well worth the view.
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    • Day 1

      Glengoyne

      May 9, 2017 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

      A highlight of the day was the Glengoyne distillery… “Unhurried since 1803.” I bought a small airline-size bottle of 18 year old Scotch and Jeff and I shared that “wee dram” on a bench in the shade. A little bit warms the esophagus all the way down for quite some time and even that little bit took some time to sip down. Actually, it was quite good.Read more

    • Day 2

      WHW 2011, Start in Milngavie

      June 14, 2011 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

      Zurück am Startpunkt des WHW. Nachdem wir unseren Freunden von unserem erste Thruhike vorgeschwärmt hatten, wiederholen wir 2011 einfach die Tour aus 2009 und starten erneut auf den WHW am Trailhead in Milngavie.Read more

    • Day 2

      Start auf den WHW

      May 31, 2009 in Scotland ⋅ 17 °C

      Start auf den West Highland Way in Schottland. Die erste echte Fernwanderung :-)
      Einige werden noch folgen ... hier auf FindPenguins werden sie zur Dokumentation jeweils mit Start und Ende eingestellt.Read more

    • Day 2

      Start!

      March 31, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      We heard 13pm.is the best time to start the walk 😅
      Haben gehört um 12 mittags ist die beste Zeit zum losgehen...

    • Day 1

      Gartness honesty lunch

      May 9, 2017 in Scotland ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      We had lunch at the Beech House in the mini-town of Dumgoyne… Not too interesting, but the only place to eat in this wide spot in the road. I got the Haddock and chips…. Then on our way again.
      About 8 miles out, we went through the small cluster of houses called Gartness. There was a self-serve ice cream freezer. It was unmanned. You took out the ice cream bar of your choice and left a pound in the small plastic box sitting next to the freezer.
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