Scotland Day 4 - Drumnadrochit and Fort Augustus

This morning we got up about 7am, and had a full Scottish breakfast of toast with butter, Haggis, Scottish potato cake, Baked Beans, Tomato, Mushrooms, Bacon, and Scottish Breakfast Sausage. Mauser also had fried egg, fried bread, and black pudding as well. For drinks we had a couple of cups of tea each, and Mauser had an orange juice as well.

After breakfast we set out on a walk, which was nearby so we didn't need to drive anywhere. The walk was very nice with lots of autumny trees and a large waterfall, though the instructions we had for the walk were very confusing and made us go the wrong way and have to backtrack a few times. The instructions kept talking about different coloured markers, but had the marker colours down wrong in a few different places. If we'd followed the instructions but ignored the bits about coloured markers we probably would have done the walk okay without ever going the wrong way. The only other problem with the walk is that the weather was quite dreary for most of it.

We came back to the hotel from the walk and had a short rest while I copied the photos to the laptop. After that Mauser drove us out to a woodland walk near Fort Augustus. The walk was nice, but again it wasn't sunny. It rained for a bit, but there was a nice view of the sunset light coming through the valley below, like sunbeams, except horizontal purple sunbeams.

When we'd finished the walk it was getting dark. We went to Fort Augustus, which is meant to be a small village worth visiting. In the Scotland book it said there was a reasonably priced restaurant there, but when we found it, it was closed. It looked they were only open during the day and didn't serve evening meals, though there were no open times displayed.

We had a walk round Fort Augustus in the rain, and there was a nice set of locks there, a bit like Foxton Locks, though larger, not as many, and not as steep. There were a few food places, but all the reasonably priced places seemed to be closed, and the places that were open were quite expensive. So we went to a mini-market there, which was also very expensive. We bought some fudge and pain au chocolats. Then when we were going back to the car we saw another mini-market, so we went in there, and they were much cheaper. Doh! Also, they sold the same pain au chocolats and the previous shop didn't give a receipt, so it could have looked like we were nicking them from that shop.

We went back to the hotel and just had a pot noodle and the last of some Raspberry sponge cake we bought from Tescos in Edinburgh. I copied and sorted the photos from the walk near Fort Augustus, then for the rest of the evening I wrote the blog posts for our trip so far (excluding today's).