Day 107 Rest day 17 Inverness

Today was a brilliantly blue, sunny day. It didn’t start off like that, it was grey, cool and overcast when I put every item of clothing I wasn’t wearing into the washing machine. As a result my fleece and down jacket rapidly became too hot as I wandered round Inverness getting my rest day business done.

Our Airbnb is lovely -clean, peaceful, with a most wonderful garden and not far from the city centre. We had breakfast looking out over the garden before Matthew packed and headed off for the airport and I headed into town to return my canal key. This was the key that allowed access to loos, showers, and in Inverness, washing machines, along the canal at the various locks. It hadn’t been as useful as I had imagined because not all the locks have facilities and the path leaves the canal just before Drumnadrochit.

The canal office was a half hour walk across Inverness. Inverness is a beautiful city, full of grand buildings, and pretty footbridges across the river. In the end, I think the key was worth having, because otherwise I wouldn’t have seen nearly as much of Inverness.

I ambled along managing to recycle some batteries, buy a tea towel and a chamois leather (for scaling barbed wire fences, the JO’G trail is not for the faint-hearted), return my key, and stock up on food before I stopped for a scone and some coffee.

Reeling from the amount of scone I had just ingested I made my way back to my room via a chocolate shop in the Victorian Market. I have been invited to have dinner with my hosts this evening so thought I had better bring a thank you token.

The rest of the day has been spent not walking. I’ve done more than my ten thousand steps so am now lying in my bed writing this. My washing is dry so all is right with the world.