5th JUNE - PORTREE TO LOCHEARNHEAD

Left our hotel in Portree at 9.45am. Very heavy rain which followed us down the road for more than 2 hours. We travelled back over the Skye Bridge to Kyle of Lochalsh, down past Loch Duich, through Glen Shiel, past Loch Cluanie, Loch Garry and Loch Lochy to Spean Bridge and then Fort William.

The weather going through Glen Shiel

We turned west at Fort William and drove 15 miles to Glenfinnan, the home of (the Bonnie Prince Charlie) Glenfinnan Monument and the Glenfinnan Viaduct, the longest concrete railway bridge in Scotland and famous for its' appearance in the Harry Potter films. The weather by this time had improved and the rain had stopped. We'd arrived at Glenfinnan about 12.45, had had lunch and left at 2pm.

We then came back to Fort William and drove down the side of Loch Linnhe (a very busy road this, particularly going north to Inverness) to North Ballachulish and then through Glen Coe and Rannoch Moor. Glen Coe is particularly spectacular as per the undernoted photo.

We drove south east to Crianlarich and then to our B&B at Lochearnhead, arriving about 4.15. A very old house but very clean and comfortable - an old fashioned B&B. Later we walked a mile up to The Lochearnhead Hotel for dinner, then had too many drinks in the bar afterwards in the company of six anglers and two female golfers! Walked back to the B&B in what was the most warm and glorious weather of our holiday.

We'd left Skye in the morning with the worst weather of our holiday and by the end of the day we'd had the best! That's Scottish weather for you!!

210 miles driven today.