Always somewhere new to find around Glencoe

Lovely email from Kay and Roger. This photo is by Billy Currie, one of the great Scottish professionals.

Hello John and Gillian,  Roger and I had a wonderful holiday, thank you so much for letting us stay in your lovely cottage, it really felt like home from home! (in fact we have an almost identical kitchen to yours!)
You seem to have thought of everything!

We have stayed in the area before, but  it was very helpful having all your information and suggestions. We discovered Glen and Loch Etive this time and thought it was glorious, plenty of wild life, lots of Deer and Chaffinches galore! The majority of our time was spent in and around Glen Coe and Rannoch Moor, we just love being there and enjoyed  eating in the Clachaig Inn. We have met some lovely people on our travels.

We've not been to the Isle of Skye, so we planned to go on the last Wednesday and perhaps stay the night, but unfortunately Rogers back went (this happens occasionally!) so we stayed in for a couple of days, which worked out well as the weather wasn't great and it was so cosy and relaxing in the cottage. We hope to come back and visit Skye very soon.

Will send you some photos as soon as we've sorted them out. Thank you once again.

Masses of information about the area in our Site map

This is about Fort William

Appin is beautiful

Bed and breakfast and hotels from Oban to Fort William

Walks around our cottage

Autumn short breaks in Glencoe

Ben Nevis walking is a slog, but worth it

Cottage holidays Scotland in the Autumn, Winter, Spring

The highlands of Scotland

Find holiday cottages anywhere

Gorgeous photographs of Glencoe

Hill walks in Glencoe

Munroes in Glencoe

Port Appin

Barcaldine

Accommodation in Lochaber

Kentallen

Ballachulish

Onich

October in Glencoe. Not enough water. Kaykers are strange.

 Gillian and I are here in Glencoe, now, and it is fabulous. The sun is streaming down, well, for to-day anyway, and the colours are in the early days of turning yellow, red, and brown.
We popped down Glen Etive yesterday, to see how the kayakers were getting on. Not all that well, actually, not enough water.
Kayaking is a bit strange when you think about it. When everyone else is gloomy about constant rain the kayakers whoop and head for the falls. They want to go down river, but not far, because they'll have to carry  their canoes on their backs uphill. Ideally they want a road nearby where they launch, then they fall down a few hundreds yards, and they want the road to be there again, preferably with a van on it containing their mother who has done nothing else except sit in it hoping they haven't broken their backs. Mothers are a bit like that.
Odd

It is our day for finding the little things wrong in the cottage, and sorting them out. Got to switch over tv to digital, next week, I think, got to buy a new back door, and get a gate built, light bulb, heater element for bathroom - the really big things. Luckily, Michelle's Dad has done some painting for us, and husband John has fixed the outside light at the back.

Funny thing. If we were living here ourselves these jobs would not get done for months. but because we have guests staying they all have to be done instantly.

The joys of self catering, but we just need to look in the visitors book comments to see it is all worth while.

John

Christmas cottage still availabile in Glencoe, Scotland

Information about Glencoe area in our Site map
Fort William
Appin the beautiful country
Accommodation from Oban to fort William
Walks around the Kentallen cottage
Short breaks in Glencoe
Ben Nevis is a slog, but probably worth it
Holidays Scotland in the Autumn, Winter, Spring
The Highlands
Holiday cottages = how to find them
Photographs of Glencoe
Hill walks Glencoe
Munroes around here
Port Appin is lovely
Barcaldine - two top hotels here
Accommodation
Kentallen the hamlet
Ballachulish looks nice these days
Onich -  pity about the main road there