Glencoe and Fort William

Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh, is there anything too hard for me?

Jeremiah 32: 27
Chunky clumps of turf for the outside walls.
Bundles of long Heather stems for the roof.
Position the door with care.
You need to frame the whole mountain that way there is no need for hooks to hang pictures.
There is only the light from a fire and a cosy feel once that door is closed.
A turf house made like those the McDonalds lost in Glencoe.

The story is complicated as most hate, power-filled stories are, but this is the ending. After several nights of hospitality to another clan. The guests murdered their hosts in their beds. Every single person.  As often is the case it involved the command of a king, a higher power and some of the guests refused to obey such a bloody request but it didn’t stop it happening in 1692.

Here are some words: misspell, mistake, missfuel. The last is a new one. We missfueled Bugzy and it took a day and a half to sort out.  From the service station where it happened, we pushed her down the hill to a traffic roundabout where we stopped the traffic to take her into a gated car park overlooking the Loch.  A lovely place. At 8 pm they came and locked us in as they understood that we had to wait till the morning, so with a few deer and midges we spent a quiet night. That was when the rain started and continued the whole next day in Fort William where Bugzy was drained and refuelled. 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Thank you for being with us. Our park-ups for the night often have no WiFi. Last night for example.

Sandy 🙂

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