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West Highland Way Day 1 – Milngavie to Drymen

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Train into Glasgow, we need a cashpoint and a pie shop.

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Is there an app for removing rain drops from my photographs?

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The Start at Milngavie

There is no missing the start (or the end) of the West Highland Way.

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It looks like today is the perfect day to use my water tight case for my iPhone, so I can blog and take photographs in the rain.

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The rain has been patchy and mostly light (no over trousers needed) so it has not been hard to deal with. On the plus side there has been some nice light to photographs the woodland colours.

By 2.30pm the rain had stopped and I had my rain coat off.

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West Highland Way – Tomorrow Milngavie to Drymen

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We have driven to Drymen this afternoon to drop off our case (it saved us having to pay to have the bag transported). The plan is to have our case, which contains spare clothes, wash kit, food for the trail and other sundry items moved from one B&B to the next by “Sherpa Van”. However due to

  • there being no accommodation at Rowardennan – we will be walking to the end of the road and then getting a taxi back to Drymen and then the following morning another taxi to restart the walk
  • and Sherpa Van not servicing Inversnaid – for this day we will need to carry our overnight stuff and trail food for the next day

the bag is going to spend three days at Drymen and then it is being taken to Crainlarich.

So here is where we will be walking to tomorrow.

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Sunny Drymen

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This is the B&B

Tonight we are staying with Diana’s cousin and his wife, Richard and Morag, and they are also going to keep an eye on my car as well. Thank you.

Tomorrow we will get the train from Muirhead via the Glasgow city centre to Milngavie and then we start walking!

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West Highland Way – All packed

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All packed & ready (for anything) | richardgoeswalking.

So tomorrow I am off to Scotland, and the West Highland Way, with my optimistic walking companion Richard. See his blog entry above.

I have everything packed, but it looks a very small pile of kit – although I have included two backpacks! I had packed my Karrimor 25l day pack, but I have changed my mind and I now have decided to use my Golite Jam 2, it compresses quite well and will give me the extra comfort and space for the day we have to carry our overnight kit (there is one B&B where it will cost too much to ship our large case there).

Another thing I needed to sort before leaving – my iPhone has gone wrong again. See this post – I have tried the “putting the earphone plug in and out” and the “restore my iPhone completely” options but still no phone audio. I was really impressed by one of the Apple Support suggestions – “turn the volume up!”. So I am off to Scotland with a phone that only half works, I will be using the blue tooth earphone and hope the charge on the iPhone lasts all day!

You can follow our adventure, day by day, by following the links below to the daily blog entries and photos…

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Bob Heil at the National Hamfest

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Bob Heil visited the National Hamfest, from the US, to give two lectures on “sound” and to demonstrate some of his equipment. You may not have heard of Bob but you have probably heard his work, see his Wikipedia entry – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Heil.

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Everyone he spoke to, he thrilled!

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Bob and Sarah Heil at the National Hamfest

As part of his visit he was making a video, which he is planning to show on his video podcast – Ham Nation.

HAM Nation is the new TWIT show about ham radio.   Bob Heil, with various co-hosts and guests will cover the excitement and importance of ham radio – from tossing an antenna wire in a tree allowing you to talk to the world, to the importance of ham radio operators in time of disasters.

If you use iTunes you can subscribe to his feed, both audio and video. I was not able to hear his lecture at the show (as the Hamfest Co-ordinator, I had no time to even look around the show as a “visitor” but that did mean I did not spend any money!) so I am looking forward to this broadcast.

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