Great Glen Way 2013 Day 4

Day 4 Friday 3^rd August 2013

Again, I left too early to visit the local Locks Visitor’s Centre, so headed off along the canal path.  I had strapped my shin/ankle with a compression bandage, but the pressure on it seemed to be worse, and I soon removed it.  At a lock further along the path, I found a small dock that I utilised to sit and soak my foot in the canal again for a while.  I had also taken an aspirin earlier, and I think it may have had some affect about this time.   

Along to another loch, at which point the rain came down in a torrent.  The canal ended at Loch Orch and the trail skirted the edge of the loch through a magical forest walk, some times following an abandoned railway line.

Slightly before Laggan, there was an old railway station that had deteriorated significantly.

An old railway station platform

 

By the time the trail came out onto a road near Laggan the pain in my shin had intensified, making the last kilometre to the B&B a lengthy halting, limping battle.  It was only 2:30 p.m. but all of the guests were already at the B&B for the evening.  I sat and iced my shin for the rest of the afternoon then Francis, our host, drove some of us to a local restaurant for dinner, where I had sausages and mash with a cider.  One of the restaurant workers drove me back to the B&B afterward.

Day 5