Here's a photo of the Hotel, featuring our room - it's the one above the front door and has excellent views out over the loch. For more go to www.ballachulishhotel.com - I swear I am not being paid to publicise the hotel...
After a buffet breakfast we drove off in the car to Fort William to get our lottery ticket (back to normal tonight as only one number comes up)....
Despite some pretty houses and good views over the water and Ben Nevis in the background, I have to say that Fort William is rubbish...
We then walked up the side of a hill to a waterfall at Inchree half way between Ballachulish and Fort William. Spectacular views and we need the exercise after yesterday's excesses...
Back to the car and over the water (Corran Narrows) to Corran on the ferry which took around 3 minutes if that. We drove on to Strontian - again the scenery was breath-taking. There we had a small lunch (toasties mmm) and met the local dog, Holly, who approached every visitor to get them to kick her small rubber ball around for her to fetch...
On the way back we decided to drive around the coast rather than take the ferry - a detour of around fifty miles...
All in all I drove for around three hours today and we arrived back at the hotel around 3:45. I know this because it was half time in the big game between Hearts and Celtic in Glasgow. We sat in the old library drinking coffee and Anne listeend to the Hearts match on her portable radio while I listened to music on the trusty Creative Jukebox...
Hearts got a draw and have now completed the first quarter of the season unbeaten - a quite amazing achievement. Icing on the cake was the first win of the season for Queen of the South - a last minute goal against Airdrie secured all three points and took them off the bottom of the league....
Dinner was excellent again - in fact possibly a bit better tonight as we weren't so drunk. Once again I ordered steak, rare...
No longer veggie....
2 comments:
I assure you it's not guilt free - to be honest i don't really understand why I'm not veggie any longer - perhaps it's just about having more choice. I imagine the majority of my intake will remain veggie - e.g. had a curry on Sunday night and ordered veggie bhuna - the shopping re this week's evening meals also turned out to be veggie...
Do I really want to admit I'm tired of being ripped off in restaurants by being charged the same for a bowl of beans as others are being charged for a big juicy steak?
it certainly is a turnip for the books...that's for sure!
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