Loch Lomond to Loch Ness
Monday It was a pre-lunch getaway for a journey up the A82 for around three and a half hours to my next stop from Loch Lomond. The drive towards Fort Augustus and then Fort William takes in simply stunning scenery. Amongst the best Lakeland views I'd ever seen, right up in the Gods and glancing downwards to dotted prior positions which themselves already seemed elevated on passing through. This is even before the North Coast 500 route truly begins at Inverness! There are many tarns (corrie lochs?) dotted by the roadside along the route. My overwhelming urge to park up and have a dabble had to be suppressed. I already had a plan. My other thought was if the lump of tin I was driving coughed its final breath whilst up there I'd end up in the Slaughtered Lamb. "Don't go on the moors...." Tootling up at Loch Ness Shore site on schedule I was checked in with the friendliest of welcomes, still without a Scottish accent within wiggling distance, until I was told t