Mallaig, and looking out to Muck, Eigg and Rum...

Monday, 9th May - continued... (Catch-up)

Mallaig is a hilly town, tucked into the hills like so many others, and we soon found our hotel on top of one of those hills. The West Highlands Hotel has been there a long time, and the rooms are very nice, with good facilities. We had one on the first floor, (bloody stairs again!, and I was whinging about how many there were when one of a pair of elderly ladies said to me that they (stairs) were good physiotherapy!!! 

Turned out that they and their husbands regularly go walking in remote locations and were to take a trip out to Muck, for a walk. There appear to be no designated roads for cars on Muck, so I guess they were doing it for the wilderness thing. (I suppose if you've done this all your life, it becomes second nature?)

Great view from our window and we worked out that we were looking at the islands of Rum, Eigg and Muck, and they appeared in many guises as the afternoon went by, with clouds and mist and sunshine and finally some sunset colour.

We discovered our room was booked as a Dinner/Bed/Breakfast, so we were offered three courses for dinner. We never really eat three courses, but had an entree, and then a main, but shared a cheese platter.

Good sleep, and a lovely morning in the dining room for breakfast, but the weather wasn't good, so after we paid up and packed up in the rain, we headed off for what was to be a fabulous run, in terms of scenery, through the Glencoe pass, and the mountains. We had rung ahead and got a room at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.

On the way, we stopped for lunch at Glencoe village, and got some souveniry things.

Weather was still a bit rainy and we had to use the wipers most of the day, but the scenery is just magnificent, as you can see from the next post...