By mileage, today was a fairly short day, only about 100 miles. By the clock, it took us most of the day to travel from Isle of Skye to Glencoe and check into our room. The weather was cool and overcast, but no rain, just mist. The external temperature reading on the bike got down to 10.5 C, or around 51 degrees F. We bundled up so the cooler temp did not bother us. Roads were all good 2-laned paved with only one or two eejits (Scotish and Irish slang for idiots) trying to pass when they shouldn't.
We took a very nice detour to the Glengarry Castle Hotel for tea, coffee, scones and pastry; very decadent and filling. The hotel was built in the 1860s as the Ivergarry House and turned into the hotel in 1958. The grounds are nice and it overlooks Loch Oich.
We road into Glencoe before our room was ready so we walked a little and had a real lunch/dinner at the Glencoe Cafe. It was overcrowded and under staffed so it worked well to kill a couple of hours until our room was ready. We stopped in a nice looking but underwhelming gift shop and didn't buy anything.
Last night I reserved a room at the Beechwood Cottage B & B for us tonight. It's very nice with a big room upstairs for us. The proprietor is very picky and I'm sure if I wasn't on vacation and had to spend a lot of time with him he would get under my skin. But not today.
Sooz is checking out where to go tomorrow so we shall see.
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| Glencoe, Scotland |
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| Beechwood Cottage B & B |
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| Impressive looking on the outside underwhelming on the inside gift shop |
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| Glencoe, Scotland |
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| Traffic did indeed queue up |
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| Entrance to Glengarry Castle Hotel |
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| Loch Oich |
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| The lounge where tea was served |
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| Our tea and coffee tray, clotted cream in the middle of 3 cups in the lower left |
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| Castle grounds |
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| Susie waiting in the lounge for our tray to be delivered |
Looks like a great day.....great photos
ReplyDeleteThanks Fred.
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