Heading East with Knees Unsure

Day 12, Day 11 Hiking. Monday, June 13.
20 Boutique B&B, Helensburg to Golwanlea Guest House, Balloch.  

10.91 Miles.  26,234 Steps.  4.5 Hours. 

While sipping coffee before breakfast watched most of Glyndebourne’s Making of the opera “No Ordinary Summer”.  Filmed during COVID lockdown in 2020.  The opera is a new translation of “In The Market For Love”.  



The LAST Jolly Rancher from home.  😥



Man at breakfast was also starting the John Muir Way headed towards Dunbar.  His plan was to tour Hill House before getting started on his hike.  

He is from Boston and was having the Full Scottish Breakfast. 

That meal almost makes me feel sick just reading the components.  Lorne sausage, link sausage, fried egg, streaky bacon, baked beans, black pudding and/or haggis, tattle scones, fried tomatoes, mushrooms and toast.  Doesn’t that sound disgusting?



Scrambled eggs on poached smoked salmon.  My choice. 





Helensburg Coat of Arms.  Combination of Clan Colquhoun and the Duke of Sutherland’s arms.  1776. 



Helensburg Bowling Club grounds.  Established 1861.  New members welcome.  Me?  Bowling “originated in ancient Egypt…played in Britain since 13th century…Scots developed the flat green and drew up new rules.”



Minature Bounty bar.  Chocolate covered coconut.  I love them. 

Stiff climb up and out of Helensburg.  Relief to reach the point where it was all downhill. 



Smile - it is cloudy and rainy again.  No surprise. 



Fairy house in woods. 



Nice Jeep. 










Loch Lomond.  On the Bonny Bonny banks where the sunshines on me and my true love - wait - No Sun, No True Love.  Guess it doesn’t matter if I take the high road and he takes the low road…we will not meet in Scotland - but in Wisconsin. 🤗



I am lugging around almost a full package of McVittie’s chocolate covered digestives.  They are good but a bit heavy. 



Not sure if the Scottish words refer to ‘a fair trade zone’ or ‘welcome to west Dumbartonshire’. 





Walked by the Birds of Prey exhibition.  



Kind of tempting to attend the 1:30 Birds of North America as I might learn something. 



Friendly dog named Freddie. 



Cullen Skink a traditional homemade Scottish fish soup.  Very tasty.  



Next door to where the Cullen Skink had been eaten The Blue Lagoon Fish and Chips shop was, complete with a creature from the deep lagoon. 



Balloch Marina





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