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Wednesday 11 May, the Ardnamurchan peninsula

Scotland 2005 - part VIII

Elisabeth & Teije
2006-08-27 09:59:21

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We are just in time to have breakfast when we wake up. Today we take a day off, bu with us that means driving a bit through the neighbourhood. Well, a bit? We drive around all day! We don't know this area, so at the first side road we turn off, searching for new and unknown places. And so we encounter lots of new places, lochs, dead ends with houses on magnificient spots and so on and on.

Like these spots on the pictures, along Loch Morar. We have heard it is one of the deepest lochs of Scotland and some people claim there is (also) a monster living. We only see the sun reflecting on a beautiful lake and no monsters.

Further to the south we turn to the right, onto a road that doesn't exist on our map. That is frustrating for Teije who marks the roads on a 5-year old Scotland map. So, he has to draw a new road on the map and wonders if he could work for a mapping company. Well, the road looks very new and leads along to coast to the town of Arsaig. (After we returned home we bought a new map and there the road was present, so it really was a new road).

In Arsaig we take our first break and have a nice we nice cup of coffee. In Scotland (and the UK) you often get a large cup with very weak coffee with lots of milk. I like a stron cup with special coffee milk. So I order a black coffee and use the milk I took from Holland. It is some of the things we always take with us when we go abroad.
The image on the photograph shows how many villages on the west coast look like: a restaurant or pub, a post office and a couple of houses around it. The weather is getting better every day and we can sit outside again.

We take every side road that we come across and sometimes we find ourselves in idyllic places. That is not always the case, obviously, but still we see some things we otherwise would have missed when only driving on the 'normal' roads.

In Glen Moidart we find this private country house, ...