Road to the Isles

The problem with writing up posts almost a year after the events they describe is that you forget where exactly all of your photos were taken. Whoops. But better late than never~!

For this post, I'm going to focus on scenes from the Road to the Isles, an absolute must-see part of Scotland. The Road itself refers to the A830, which connects Mallaig, where the ferry docked and deposited us back on the mainland (can I say that since Britain itself is an island?) and a major port town for continuing on to the Hebrides, to Fort William, a large-ish Highland town. More on Fort William later.

The reason you should really travel this route is because of this:



and also this:



maybe this?



You may not believe me, but I am being really selective with my pictures here. It's just so pretty there and we had such a nice day to drive it. See?



I know, if none of those swayed you, this ought to:



That's our little blue Ford for the trip. It was a good little car. Anyway, as you may have surmised from the open car door, we took the opportunity to get out and hike around a bit, mostly to go check out a baby waterfall we saw about halfway up the hillside. The whole Highlands area is big with hikers for hopefully obvious reasons. I would love to get back and actually do some thorough exploring.

Along the route are several little villages that can be fun to poke around in. Perhaps the best known is Glenfinnan, and that shall take centre stage in the next post, which hopefully will not take six months to write!