Once our three weeks in London was over we headed to Euston Station to catch the train to Glasgow Scotland where we had a ten day house sit in Arrochar, a small village at the head of Loch Long parallel to, but closer to the coast from, Loch Lomond.

As you will see from the photos there weren’t many sunny days during our stay but we still managed to get out a lot and see the areas around us.

We travelled the A83 a number of times eventually making our way to Inveraray Castle ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll, Chief of the Clan Campbell who according to the information in the castle had sensibly married into the Cadbury family. We also went into Inverary itself, a small town on the banks of Loch Fyne.

While watching the end of the Bond movie Skyfall while in in Devon, I remarked to Jenny we must go to Glencoe if we ever get to Scotland and so one day we bundled our house sit dog into the back of the car and off we went.

We passed Lake Tulla on the way, catching it on a still moment (apparently a rarity).

As we entered the Glencoe valley we encountered the famous Buachaille Mountain. We travelled down the A82 to Glencoe itself passing the Three Sisters then up to Kinlochleven at the head of Loch Leven.

Other day trips included seeing the Falls of Dochart at Killin on the way to Kenmore along Loch Tay

and finding that the annual Loch Lomand Highlands Games was on while we were there.   Tug of war, caber tossing, dancing, pipes and drums and the hammer throw were on show. A unique Scotsman called van der Merwe was doing well in the hammer throw!

One of the audience:

Some owls were on show including the Indian Eagle Owl, which is actually from the Indian sub-continent.

Some general photos taken on our travels.  

The Butterbridge crossing the Kinglas Water was part of the Dumbarton to Inverary military road in the mid 18th Century.