Fort William is a very ordinary little town in very nice surroundings. I did manage to find a new scarf though!
Our caravan on the Fort William site. Stuart, you can see the fresh and waste water barrels on this.
This is the view from our caravan, when it’s not too cloudy!
Nearby is the Caledonian Canal. You can get all the way to Inverness, but bear in mind you have to go through Loch Ness, if you dare!
This was a lovely morning out, starting out at the Glenfinnan Monument…..
we walked up to the Glenfinnan Viaduct…..
which looks even better with a steam train on it!
All these white streaks which look like enormous bird droppings are, we think, lime leaching out of the mortar. Colin tells me that is why the Romans built their aqueducts without mortar, so they would still look good in 2000 years time.
We then walked on, around a lovely high level walk by the loch, to the station, where this old carriage has been converted into a cafe.
The food was lovely, can highly recommend!
We met this little dog, who followed us all the way back to the car, marking his territory as he went. I think he wanted to come with us…..
but I told him he was too ugly to be a model.
We will be a few more days in Fort William, as we have to wait for a part for the car to pass its MOT. We then plan to go to Skye, Harris and Lewis, and around the top coast of Scotland. If you look at a map you will see there are no real towns up there, so we will be staying on small, rural sites, and may have no internet, but will post when I can.
I’m not sure the blogosphere needed to know of my interest in fresh and waste water barrels! We went to Robinsons Caravans last week to root around, and they had variety of old and new vans. The old ones seemed expensive unless you want very old, which we don’t, and the new ones looked very nice and not that much more expensive. So next week, we’re going to a caravan show at the NEC to be seduced by all those beautiful pristine interiors.
That warning about the dangers in transiting Loch Ness is very helpful. As caravans are lighter than water, I’d assumed it would be no problem, but I realise now that the car would sink, so thanks for that. Bit of a shame really, I’d been hoping to get a glimpse of a plesiosaur.
At those caravan shows, you sometimes get the opportunity to have a little practice at towing, and reversing! Some people are really good at reversing, I’ve seen them put large vans on siteas in two moves. Others buy a motor mover, and others (us) get it roughly in position then get out and push.