At Sam's wedding we had the pleasure of meeting Ann, a colleague of Zoe's, and her children Rosa and Callum. Ann very kindly invited us up to her Scottish holiday home and after a day at Stirling, we arrived to a beautiful lamb dinner with her family and some local friends.
The house is right on the edge of Loch Etive and it's hard to explain just how beautiful and tranquil it is. We hadn't been too far off the beaten path until this point, and it was really great to get into the countryside, even if it means we will have to tick the "Yes, my shoes have been on a farm" box when passing biosecurity checks at the next airport.
Unfortunately, Ann had to head back to Cambridge the next morning, so we spent a couple of days relaxing and exploring the region: we went for a walk around the loch, where I very unceremoniously got poo shoes, had lunch in the village, went fishing and dog-walking with Callum.
History in the area was provided by the Bonawe Iron Furnace, where local charcoal and shipped iron ore was turned into bars called "pigs", or cast into cannonballs, from 1753 to 1876.
Exercise was a walk up the "ant trail" on Glen Nant, the forest where the charcoal was grown, starring some absolutely stunning scenery.
I'd like to thank Ann again for her hospitality and welcoming us into her home.
We bid farewell to Argyll and turned the car back in the direction of Glasgow.
Tags: travel
Subscribe with a news reader (RSS)
Have new updates sent by e-mail