We went to see Urquhart Castle this day and walked down to Drumnadrochit afterwards. The castle is a very well visited spot overrun by families, busses and instagrammers. The castles history is well explained by a short movie in the movie theater. But the sensation of the movie is the curtains opening at the end of it with a view on the real castle in bright sunshine. With some imagination you can see, how the people lived there.
Behind our camping site a small magic path lead to the Great Glen Way which brought us to Invermoriston a small town with two old bridges next to Loch Ness.
We went out for a walk with no further goal and ended up with more than 20 kilometers because we had no fun in the thought of going back the same way. I looked up a quote from the book “The unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” that comes to my mind all the time when I have to go backwards the same way, but I didn’t find it
With the big birthday group we went to Sanna Beach in Ardnamurchan: 
We went to a friends birthday party who invited us to celebrate with him in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. We arrived by car at night in a hotel near Glencoe and woke up the next morning without having seen the scenery surrounding us.
Can you imagine waking up to this?
I went to Scotland once before and I will never forget the breathtaking atmosphere, the light, the remoteness and the magic of this land. I’m in love again.
On our first day we went for a hike near Glencoe:
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