Hello. Welcome to our blog. We are walking the West Highland Way for charity and for "fun" ...

Read all about our adventures here.  We are walking the Walk in Day Sections, travelling from Glasgow. Originally this was to fit in with other commitments we had, but it turned out that I needed the days in between to recover !  

We live near Milngavie, the start of the walk and it has been my ambition to "walk the walk" ever since it was opened.  The walk was opened on 6 October 1980 by Lord Mansfield so becoming the first officially designated long-distance footpath in Scotland) - it is 154 km or 96 miles long.

Fundraising for British Heart Foundation

We are fundraising for the British Heart Foundation.

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A poem

A poem that I spotted - no author given - if you are the author please let me know and I can add your name ! Thought this was nice and I would say only about 10% of West Highland Way walkers seem to be British or Scottish. To have all this on our doorstep but maybe not many of our own young folk and older folk taking advantage of it all !  (Killearn is near Drymen - the first stop on West Highland Way)

Thoughts on Killearn 

I walk up the road to the moorland, 

To the sound of the curlews cry, 

I watch the sun setting over the loch, 

And I have to ask myself why — 

Do we travel the wide world over 

To see other hills, suns and lands, 

When we have this view here on our doorstep 

If we’ve ten minutes time on our hands.