Day 6

A real outdoor day

After leaving the Isle of Skye, we were driving south in the hope that nice weather will come again and we can do some serious hiking in Glencoe's Lost/Hidden  Valley. The story behind the Hidden Valley is the following;
Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, a massacre took place in Glen Coe. This incident is referred to as the Massacre of Glencoe. The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen—Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon—although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. Thirty-eight MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by the guests who had accepted their hospitality. The survivors escaped in the same valley we were planing to explore.

 As we arrived we were already in the afternoon, so we were safe of any massacre. Although it was a valley, we had ascend 600metres on the first 2kms. it was not an easy task but Judit made surprisingly well, without complaining to much.

It seems that there were some injured victims of the morning massacre still hiding somewhere, because a helicopter of the Mountain Rescue was doing its rounds for like 30 mins above our head. When we arrived back to the parking lot a few hours later, we were told that a 60 years old retiree tourist broke his leg while hiking. We were wondering, why a helicopter and a 10 men ground rescue group + 2 policeman in armoured west had to be involved for this.

   
After spending the whole afternoon with our hike, we had only 20 miles to drive to Oban, where we going to spend the following to nights. With its 10000 habitants it is the largest village in the larger surrounding with a big harbour. Several ferries leave from here to the neighbouring islands and having some really nice seafood restaurants.  We wanted to try one, which we read good reviews about. 


We already booked in advance a table in the famous Seafood Temple of Oban. 
http://www.obanseafood.com/
It was very small restaurant with a few tables looking over the harbour. The cook; a women working before 20 years as a hairdresser made us a really delicious dinner from really fresh ingredients delivered by her own brother, who is of course a local fisherman.

After the dinner it we had a really hard time to climb up the to our B&B.  From our room we could see the whole village and the ferries coming into the harbour.