After eight months in planning, Suzy's countless lists, check lists, road maps, OS maps, itinerary and transport timetables are about to be tested on our Scottish Highland adventure. We walked the West Highland Way (WHW), travelled the West Highland Railway (WHR) and made a road trip through the Isles of Skye, Harris and Lewis.
We started the West Highland Way at Milngavie. We will post pictures we took at points where we stopped to wonder or to rest; this is not a pillar-to-post account of the WHW.
Our walk through Mugdock Wood took longer than it ought to have as we were enchanted by the drifts of wildflowers: Ragwort, thistles, Devil’s-bit and bonny Bluebells or Harebells as we call them back home.
Mugdock Castle
Sneezewort, which didn't make us sneeze though we gave them a good sniff.
Tansy
The views of Dumgoyne filled us with impatience for the "wilderness" to come...and, quite frankly, trepidation; oh what wee timorous city folk are we?
This was not the first or the last time we'd stop and ooh and ahh at the rustic charm of well fed livestock.
Toadflax and Angelica; the wildflowers were particularly beautiful and diverse alongside the trackbed of the abandoned Strath Blane railway line.
Somersaulting salmon, this Gartness vegetable plot, on a bank just behind the bridge over the River Endrick, must be the most picturesque location to prick out beetroot ever.
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