According to the various guides to the walk we had, this day was supposed to have been the roughest and the hardest of the walk, and I guess had it been wet it might have been. There was a lot of up and down, and climbing over rocks and tree routes, but on the whole it was ok. This was my first day walking with one of Julia's walking poles as my left knee was pretty painful - so Craig and I tended to be found bringing up the rear on many of the downhill sections!
It was also the day that we finally left Loch Lomond behind us. As lovely as it was, two days of walking beside the lake was a bit dull - and we were getting a bit bitten by the midgies!
We had the strangest lunch at the Inversnaid Hotel - admittedly it was the end of the season, but it was just odd. Our waiter we nicknamed Igor as he lurched from room to room. We had to sit in the posh dining room to eat our bar food - baked potatoes etc. It was a bit like the hotel out of The Shining - very weird! And reading some of the reviews of it, I don't think we're the only people who found it strange... It looks fantastic from its website but it really wasn't.
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