Day   Monday 20th September
Crainlarich to Glencoe
Hannah and Paul made the right choice in breaking the Stirling to Glencoe journey as the weather improved considerably after a short while and we got lots of sunshine and for the first time in Scotland we began to see and enjoy the scenery. We only had 37 miles to do which we covered in about 4.5 hours because we kept stopping to take pics. When we arrived at Glencoe we were able to drop off our panniers but could not get in to the Youth Hostel until after 3.30 so we had lunch in a local cafe and then guess what....we went for a bike ride to the end of Loch Leven and took lots more pics. Paul did a little bit of bird watching after. A truly spectacular day with reasonably easy terrain, decent weather and no wind.
As Ian had arrived in Glencoe the day before he had a day off and of course he relaxed by.............. no, not going for a bike ride - a walk..........up Ben Nevis! He couldn't see very much above 600 ft but he just had to do it.
We arrived back at the YH to find that there had been an invasion of German students on some sort of field trip. They had taken over the place apart from us and another lady. We didn't expect to get much sleep that night but it wasn't too bad after all. Ian returned from Ben Nevis suitably shattered after 3hours 40mins.