Day 5 - Midges in Fort William

Well we arrived last night after 8 hours of travelling to find out our “luxury apartment” was nothing more than a converted garage, with another room for guests over the top of it. You guessed it, our room is behind the up and over door on the left.






The inside was well decorated and the bathroom was very clean with a nice big shower cubical. In typical Scottish spirit there were gentle reminders next to every light and electrical appliance switch telling you to turn them off, so we didn’t whenever possible.

We were asked what time we wanted breakfast to be promptly told it had to be 8:45 cos everyone ate around a communal table so they had to stagger the arrivals. At 8:42 precisely we had a knock on the door to remind us we were in danger of being late for our slot at the table.

Today we decided to go for a little walk as last minute training and went to see some waterfalls that were close by. Also we had to cross very dodgy rope bridge to carry on with the footpath the other side, only to find it was a quagmire and we had to turn back.




The worst thing about the bridge was that the further across you got the further apart the two wires at the top became!! For someone like Crafty with a short bingo wing span this became rather a problem and she ended up clinging on by fingernails!!







The only way across the river was shoes and socks off and wade up to our knees in freezing cold water over large excruciatingly hard rocks / pebbles.



The worst part of the whole day were the midges that were everywhere, we were just being eaten alive as we walked. We knew about the scottish midges reputation but really weren't prepared for the reality! Got out of the car without even considering anti mossie spray, as soon as we stopped walking we were surrounded by swarms of them! Sara is covered all over her face in her ears, arms etc etc!






Video Link

Have a look at this video clip (file link below) of a stonking bit of road between Glen Nevis (where did our little walk today, and Fort William where the B & B was). It was really twisty with very sharp hill crests that would have you airborn and sideways on a bike, even in a car we were able to use all the road to it's full advantage. Put your speakers on and listen to Sara desperately trying not to be thrown about whilst holding the camera with both hands on the dashboard.

You can make it full screen by clicking the little black triangle at the top right of the picture, Enjoy!!!!!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8149202596604456864&hl=en