Wandering in the wild country
Sunday 7 October The walk from Fort Augustus to Invermoriston is quite short (9 miles or so), which isn’t a full day’s walking. With the weather looking distinctly dodgy – walkers’ talk for driving...
Category: Travellers Tales
The perfect day
Saturday 6 October We are sitting in our B and B in Fort Augustus feeling very thankful after one of the nicest days of walking we’ve spent. The weather was beyond perfect – a...
The low road
Today (Friday 5 October) took us from Gairlochy to Laggan Locks, along the shores of Loch Locky. For most of the day, it didn’t feel like we were walking the path of the Canal,...
Check the weather!
It happens every time,and the saving grace is that we are better prepared than for our previous walks. The forecast for day one is rain, without promise of respite. We’ve had a very pleasant...
Starting to feel like the holidays…
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” C.S. Lewis must have loathed school: comparing heaven to school holidays (in The Last Battle) is fairly typical...
CaSPA 2018: Day 2 Keynote – Russell Bishop, “The End of Failure”
Emeritus Professor of Maori Education See articles by Professor Bishop: Relationships are Fundamental to Learning Pretty Difficult: Implementing in the Mainstream Gains in indigenous education, etc: can the improvements be maintained? Indigenous education issues...
Catholic Secondary Principals Association 2018 Conference: Opening Session with Kristina Keneally
“Throwing the Hail Mary Pass” Senator Keneally’s address is published on the CaSPA Website. Some reflections on her address: How can such a flawed institution transmit God’s love to the world? In other words,...
Day 11: as alliteration struggles for meaning, we settle for comfort in Kylesku
It’s nearly four hundred miles north from Luss to Kylesku, and any feeling of irritation swiftly dissipated as we made our way north. We had to discipline ourselves to only stop occasionally, because the...
Day 10: Lovely Loch, limited service
There was a real sense of excitement in picking up the car and heading over the border, and the views of Loch Lomond didn’t disappoint, but the hotel is only and overpriced OK, and...
Day Nine: Mend, make do and meander
Our nice friends from Sheffield, Dom and Janet Staines, described the activity of going to a destination and then walking as ‘bumbling’, and expression that we like so much that it is worthy of...