Our plan after leaving Gatehouse of Fleet was to drive up to Lauriston – taking the scenic route – northwards and take our time getting to Balmaha on the banks of Loch Lomond (cue song) but our plans were somewhat altered by events. The road to Lauriston was delightful and led (to our surprise) over upland that looked rather like moors, then through forests and was generally very scenic stopping only to let flocks of sheep with their new lambs roam across the roads and flow around the car. We were about a mile short of the A762 which we intended to join when we discovered two huge trees had fallen over the road and taken down power lines with them. We had no option but to drive all the way back to where we had come from – to the degree that we almost passed the hotel we were staying in.
June 14, 2018 archive
Jun 14 2018