Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Notes from Scotland

I am sitting on a "Weak Bridge", a little old stone bridge just below Gartmore next to my campground in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, north of Glasgow. The weak bridge doesn't seem to be in danger of imminent collapse, nor is it likely that there'll be a construction team coming along to shore it up any time soon. It's just to let you know that if the bridge were to collapse with you on it, you'd been warned. I've run across several of them in my trip from south west England through the Lake District to this relatively wild area of this heavily populated island. It's amazing how much open space there is here.

The campground charged me almost 12 pounds ($24) which is double the rate I'd been expecting, but they are busy with lots of families and young people and it is Saturday night. And there doesn't seem to be any choice so I've set up my little tent and pumped up my air mattress and spent the night. Before I climbed into my cosy nest last night I drove over to the shores of Loch Lomond to shoot some material which will be accompanied by my rendition of the old favorite, "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond."