1st October 2021 – 192 miles travelled
Woke up on our last morning in Ullapool to heavy rain 🙁 We had pastries we picked up for breakfast before packing up ready to start what will be a long first leg of our journey home.
As we drove south the weather started to improve, temporarily as it turned out.
I have been passed Rogie Falls many times but either not had time to stop or in awful weather, when we got there today the sun was out so finally I got to see them. Unfortunately the bridge across the falls was closed so we had to make do with the view from side on to the falls. Despite spending quite some time trying to spot salmon jumping up the falls we were out of luck, maybe it was too late in the year at this location?
After a walk to stretch our legs we continued on to our next stop, Beauly Priory which was a Valliscaulian monastic community.
After the priory we back tracked slight to Muir of Ord when we had seen a lovely bakery as we drove through, Bad Girls Bakery – highly recommend. We both had warmed sausage rolls (pork for me, veggie for Gavin), cake and drinks.
With full bellies we completed our journey south to our overnight stop at Luss on Loch Lomond, travelling through beautiful (but cold and wet) Glen Coe.
We stopped in Tyndham for some dinner at the Real Food Cafe, well set up for covid as all ordering done on-line and brought to your table. Also I have seen towns and villages being twinned with other throughout the world but this is the first time I have seen toilets being twinned, any one else seen this? Each of the toilets was twinned with a toilet in Malawi, the toilets were free to customers but you could give a donation which went towards installing a new toilet in Malawi or other places in need. What I thought to begin with as being a bit strange is really a great idea of supporting facilities needed in poorer countries.
We arrived at our cottage in Luss about 7pm, just before it got really dark and managed to find it without too many problems. Lovely little cottage, just a shame we only have the one night here.