FINAL JOURNEY DAY12
Our final day of Scottish Roadtrip 2011. After a heafty breakfast in Mallaig we set of south.
The minute we see signs for Glasgow we start thinking of home. We plan to stay another night before home. First stop was Glenfinnan to see two famous sites.
Glenfinnan Monument and Viaduct.
The viaduct was built in 1897–1901 by the engineer Sir Robert McAlpine. It has 21 arches, reaching as high as 100 ft (30 m). A plaque at the base of one of the arches commemorates the centenary of the viaduct.
The Glenfinnan viaduct recently came to prominence in the Harry Potter films, the first being Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second in the Harry Potter Series, when the Jacobite Steam Train became transformed into the Hogwarts Express and was filmed crossing the viaduct. It also appears and will be appearing in subsequent Harry Potter films. The viaduct also appeared in the 1969 film, "Ring of Bright Water" starring Bill Travers, where in one scene, Travers is crossing the viaduct by train.
The name Glen Coe is often said to mean "Glen of Weeping", perhaps with some reference to the infamous Massacre of Glencoe which took place there in 1692. In fact the Glen is named after the River Coe which runs through it, and bore this name long before the 1692 incident.
By now we start to consider whether to stay or head right back to Clydebank and home.
Beer in the Kingshouse Hotel another of our favourites in the Glencoe area .
Above is the Buachaille Etive Mòr [the great herdsman of Etive] generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille or The Beuckle, is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive . Its almost perfect pyramidal shape.
Last stop the DROVERS INN
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