When we last left off with our picture posts, we were leaving from Callender on the morning of the 19th, and headed toward Killin.
The day started with beautiful sunshine ... here we are after leaving Callender, riding up and down (and up (and down)) along the Cycle Route 7. Huge fields of ferns on the hill sides, heavy conifers, and, for a nice change, lovely blue skies.
We passed through Balquidhidder (also the name of a super fun Scottish dance!) where Rob Roy MacGreggor is buried, along with his family. It's a beautiful old kirk with an ancient graveyard.
We took the opportunity for a stretch break, and pulled out our instruments to play in the kirk. A lovely old Scottish couple offered to take our picture while we were playing. We played a number of strathspeys, and at the end of it the woman said "That was lovely bluegrass music." We decided to take that as a sign that she was not too familiar with strathspeys, rather than our inability to play them. But after having not played much music for so many days, she could be more right than we are?
Even after that we still had lovely weather. Here's another beautiful picture as we're headed into Killin.
The Falls of Dochart, in Killin. We stopped in a pub for a beer and snack and ordered "Scottish Tapas." That included deep fried haggis, cullen skink, Scottish salmon, and mushy peas. We also ordered "vegetarian fish and chips," which was deep fried cheese and deep fried potatoes!
Following that load of deeply fried Scottish culinary goodness, we continued on our way, albeit a bit sluggishly. We rode a good ways along the Loch Tay, and found an absolutely perfect campsite on the shoreline. We were treated to a million-pound sunset to end the day ...
19 miles today.
Did you sing the Loch Tay Boat song while you were there?
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