Took some South African friends for a day trip “up north” to show them some of Scotland’s countryside. It was a little bit grey in places, but it still gave them an idea of what’s instore for them to discover, and meanwhile it reaffirmed my love affair with my home country!
A trip out into the Scottish hills and countryside restores my soul unlike anything else can. I crave to visit places if I haven’t left the city for a while…I love that winding road up to Tyndrum, with a stop at the Green Welly for a visit to the Clifton Tearoom for a bacon buttie or some fine scottish food, then onwards across the lunar-like landscape of Rannoch Moor, then the site of the Buachaille Etive Mor standing guard before grand Glencoe…