Unless you suffer from insomnia, I suggest that my readers, if any , ignore the next para. It's there for my diary note. Skip to the pics if those interest you.
7 weeks in total for me and 5 for Mary and
everything went like clockwork. In brief ... met by Barbara at airport
Edin , straight to Inverness. A weekend there with J, J & and
Anna, to Aberdeenshire for 3 days ( Salvesens and Colemans ), back to
Inverness , 3 days of Munro bagging, met up with Harry at Killin Hotel,
to Edin to meet Mary off plane from USA and put her straight on train to
Inverness , 3 days in and around Edinburgh incl day's golf at
Muirfield, met Meghan off plane from Ireland and drove with her to
Inverness, a day's climbing with her and back to Edin 2 days later, 5
days then with Mary in Martins' flat in Stockbridge, night with Woods in
Dunbar, and the next week catching up with friends and family in
England - ( Harry, Jessica, Bill Richards and others for golf in Rye,
Martha, Dessons, Bromley Martins, Harry and Diana in Norfolk,
Latchmores in Yorkhsire, Nicola and family ), back to Edin/Glasgow (
flat and David & Heather ), Ireland with Meghan and family for 10
days, Asheville with Betty for a week and HOME !
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| Jane and Anna at Overton Avenue |
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| Took a stroll up Glen Quoich, Braemar to see progress in restoration pf the Caledonian pine forest |
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| Craigievar Castle - one of three NTS owned properties in Aberdeenshire which GSR did so much to bring in to public ownership |
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| Castle Fraser |
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| Fyvie |
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| A day in the hills with Jane. We had to ford this river on our way to Munro 244 ! Kintail on a very wet day |
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| After a bit of dodgy navigation on my part we got down to this river which fortunately we didn't have to ford |
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| Keith and Raymund accompanied me for numbers 245 and 246 ! South of Loch Laggan. Had hoped to do 3 but ran out of time. Return trip required. |
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| Two tops comprising Buchaille Etive Mor I did on my own en route to meet Harry at Killin Hotel. Remember it Barbara? |
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| The coire dead centre was my route |
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| Harry with me on No 249. Upper Glen Lyon |
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| View of Edinburgh from the Braid Hills |
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| The view indicator there which GSR and John Bartholomew designed and had constructed and erected by the Town. I always like to check up on it when home. |
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| Sandy, Spencer and David Anderson at Muirfield |
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| Meghan came over from Ireland sans kids to accompany on numbers 251, 252 and 253. North side of Loch Cluanie |
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| She bravely went an additional half mile with me along this ridge to get to the far top 1 meter lower than this cairn. Just in case ...... |
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| Back in Inverness. Anna in good company |
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| Striding out - Meghan seemingly none the worse for her exertions the day before |
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| Sister Jean on " The bench ' at Hillend. Happy memories. |
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| With old friends Greg and Di Desson at their house in Bramley , Surrey |
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| Cousin Christine and Chris at Orford , Suffolk |
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| With Diana and Harry in Norfolk and her two prized thoroughbreds |
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| With Andrew and Clarissa Latchmore at the Craven Arms, Appletreewick in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales |
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| Niece Nicola and Paul whom we met on a beach just north of Newcastle |
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| and with Hannah and Natalie |
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| Iona , Cormac and Angus take on board sustenance before a choppy crossing to Innesheer |
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| This the instrument of our hour's torture crossing over the to the island. The day after Hurricane Ophelia |
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| But magic once we were there |
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| Huge crofting history and changed v little in last 200 years |
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| The cliffs of Moher at their best |
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| Trip finished off fittingly with visit to Asheville, NC and Granny Eye. Not bad for 95 ! |
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