We got up early – about 7:00am – in order to be already to
leave after breakfast for Armadale to catch the ferry to Mallaig, before 9:00am.
It was a beautiful morning – calm and blue. We made it at 8:45 and we were off.
It is amazing how different the scenery looks from a different direction; we
got a real look at the Cuillins of Skye that we hadn't really had on the way.
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| The Cuillins |
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| The Cuillins under a cloud! |
The road was pretty good, windy but a good surface.
We got to Armadale at 10:15 just in time to catch the ferry
before the one that we had booked on at 11:40, so we arrived at Mallaig at
10:45.
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| Mallaig harbour |
It was an attractive little place and we had a good morning tea in a
very attractive café called the Tea Garden
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| Morning tea in the "Tea Garden" |
Off we went to Fort William on the A82 – a good road all the
way to the town.
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| Fort William in the rain |
The hostel was about 2 ½ miles down the Glen Nevis Road, right under Ben
Nevis!
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| The Glen Nevis hostel |
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| Looking back along the road to Fort William |
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| Across the road to the stream |
The accommodation was just two bunks – one up and one down, but at least
we had a room on our own and it had its own power point. After our simple tea
we went for a walk over the Nevis River on a little foot bridge. It is a
beautiful place; full of trees, a gurgling stream and huge Bens surging straight
up into the sky.
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| Looking towards Ben Nevis |
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| The foothills of Ben Nevis |
We met a Belgian family who had just come back from an all-day
walk up and down Ben Nevis and had realised that they still had a huge walk
back to where they had left their car so we gave the wife Meike a ride to where
their car was at Torlundy – it was miles away!
On the way back we did some grocery shopping at Morrisons
and went home for tea!
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