Fort William

From Inverness I went to Fort William on the western coast of Scotland. I don't see a train link so it's quite likely that this route was served by railbus and the photo of Urqhart Castle in the previous post was taken from the bus. Despite being a small settlement of about 10,000 people, Fort William is still the second largest in the Scottish Highlands, after Inverness. That tells you something about Scottish population distribution..

I stayed at the Glen Nevis Youth Hostel, which appears to be still there, as the website mentions a history at that site going back to 1933. I probably walked the 3 or 4 km from the town. I remember that it was rainy so I had to take out my raincoat, and also noting from the signs that the same road would take me to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles. I wasn't going to scale the mountain but hoped that I might get a glimpse of it. No such luck.

Fort William could also have been the starting point for destinations further north on the west coast but this was as far as I planned to go. I would be turning south to Glasgow afterwards.

None of the pictures here have sufficient local detail to allow me to easily identify where or when they were taken, so we'll just have to enjoy the scenery.