Tag Archives: Trekking

There isn’t a word in the English dictionary that could adequately describe yesterday. It was a challenging 21 miles to say the least. We were up at the crack of dawn, packed away our wet tent and hit the road. There seems to be a theme occuring of a hill to climb immediately as weContinue reading “Beinglas”

The rain started to fall around 0200hrs and it hasnt stopped and the forecast shows it isn’t letting up until the weekend at least! We headed into Drymen to visit the local shop to get ourselves another meal. We are aiming to carry two days of food with us to save on the weight andContinue reading “Milarrochy”

After a good night sleep we filled our bellies with a fry up at the hotel before we did our last check of our packs. We left just before 1000hrs and made the short walk to the starting point for the next 96 miles. We got our pictures taken at the oblisk with the entranceContinue reading “Drymen”

We caught the train from Stoke at midday and took the 5 hour journey to Milngavie. The train wasn’t full however there was one person to two seats. It was slightly delayed between Preston and Lancaster as there was a tresspasser on the line! This meant we missed our connecting train at Glasgow, resulting inContinue reading “Milngavie”