twowheeler
two wheels are best
Really enjoyed this walk , which I'd done in my head a few times.
The welcoming committee back at the VFR -
Drenched & hunger flat; just cruised 'home'. "No photo stops" I thought, yeah right, couldn't resist -
Ardlussa is a patch of vivid English green -
Next day dawned grey and wet, so ditched plans to climb The Paps . I'm not totally stupid - not usually anyway - in thick cloud it'd be too easy to walk off a bluff, or blunder the wrong way off the top and wind up in the wilderness of Jura's west coast.
So wandered around Craighouse instead -
It looked level -
The local cemetery is at Keils. It contains many illegible stones, but with faint celtic cross and swords, marking deaths from one of Scotland's last clan battles in the 1600s between the MacLeans and the Campbells -
At the back of the local church is a small 'self-help' museum containing a terrific collection of photographs, hundreds of them covering local life across the 20th and last bit of the 19th century -
Jura's biggest employer -
Packed up the VFR and rode back to the ferry, to cross over to Islay ready for the early morning big ferry back to the mainland -
The Q -
It spun around and we went across backwards :???: -
Digs, right on the harbour -
This place, near the pub, is owned by George (or that's what I remember his name as after some whiskies), who's living his dream - he & his wife have just retired from Stirling and bought this place. He's renovating himself and has bought a small yacht which he'll moor out front.
He's a bike lover and used to race rally cars against Carlos Sainz & others. His small-budget team would buy Carlos's ex-cars for the following season. He raced the European circuit until he hit a parked car on what should have been a closed circuit in France, rolled at 100mph and broke his back. Top bloke, we drank whisky in the pub and listened to the band.
There was mmpa: -
These dogs joined George's dog and us in the pub, for music like a local version of The Corries "There Are No Pubs In Kirkintilloch" and other songs I'd never heard of but the whisky liked :scull: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7j70ENqKc
The welcoming committee back at the VFR -
Drenched & hunger flat; just cruised 'home'. "No photo stops" I thought, yeah right, couldn't resist -
Ardlussa is a patch of vivid English green -
Next day dawned grey and wet, so ditched plans to climb The Paps . I'm not totally stupid - not usually anyway - in thick cloud it'd be too easy to walk off a bluff, or blunder the wrong way off the top and wind up in the wilderness of Jura's west coast.
So wandered around Craighouse instead -
It looked level -
The local cemetery is at Keils. It contains many illegible stones, but with faint celtic cross and swords, marking deaths from one of Scotland's last clan battles in the 1600s between the MacLeans and the Campbells -
At the back of the local church is a small 'self-help' museum containing a terrific collection of photographs, hundreds of them covering local life across the 20th and last bit of the 19th century -
Jura's biggest employer -
Packed up the VFR and rode back to the ferry, to cross over to Islay ready for the early morning big ferry back to the mainland -
The Q -
It spun around and we went across backwards :???: -
Digs, right on the harbour -
This place, near the pub, is owned by George (or that's what I remember his name as after some whiskies), who's living his dream - he & his wife have just retired from Stirling and bought this place. He's renovating himself and has bought a small yacht which he'll moor out front.
He's a bike lover and used to race rally cars against Carlos Sainz & others. His small-budget team would buy Carlos's ex-cars for the following season. He raced the European circuit until he hit a parked car on what should have been a closed circuit in France, rolled at 100mph and broke his back. Top bloke, we drank whisky in the pub and listened to the band.
There was mmpa: -
These dogs joined George's dog and us in the pub, for music like a local version of The Corries "There Are No Pubs In Kirkintilloch" and other songs I'd never heard of but the whisky liked :scull: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7j70ENqKc
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