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August 16-17, 2025 - Onward Travel

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 I started Saturday with a nice breakfast at the Myrtle Bank Guest House in Fort William and I was really happy to see my friends David and Lisa from Toronto.  I knew they were staying there but I hadn’t seen them yet and I didn’t have any contact information for them, so I was afraid I would never see them again.   After a mile or so walk to the other end of town I boarded a beautiful brand new electric bus for a trip to Edinburgh, arriving about 2:00.  The whole month of August in Edinburgh is the Fringe Festival, with thousands of acts (comedians, storytellers, dancers, musicians, theatre, etc) performing in hundreds of venues at all times of day, many of them free.  I checked into my hostel (a bed in a 14 bed room) and started walking around hoping to find something to attend in the afternoon.  It was overwhelming, the volume of shows and the number of people attending.  I finally decided on a free comedy act to see that started at 4:30 in a room o...
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August 15, 2025 - The last day of hiking

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 I finished the West Highland Way today.  I’m staying the night in Fort William.  The hike was was scheduled for about 25 kilometers that I made even longer with a couple of detours   The end in Fort William  I actually started in Kinlochleven (at the end of Loch Leven) but forgot to turn on my watch gps tracking.  Steps at the end of the day.  Somebody in Kinlochleven really likes gnomes.  The air was still, damp and warm. Perfect midge weather.  No stalking on Sunday! Even a panorama doesn’t do justice to the true view.  Today’s lunch stop. Bread, cheese, roasted chicken flavored crisps, an orange and shortbread.  Ben Nevis in the distance.  There seem to be two colors of heather. The pale purple was the most common one but occasionally there was this vivid pink too.  I took a couple mile detour to look at this stone-age fort site. It was worth it.  The fort site with Ben Nevis (4,413 ft, the tallest mountain in the...
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