We left the hosts by about 10am this morning, pushed forward by me, I hate that last bit when we are about to leave and always just want to be off and away and not prolong it really. We were given a lovely card thanking us for everything and a card and present for Davies’ birthday next week which is very sweet. They have been lovely hosts :).
Our plan was to try and get within about 30 miles of Rosemarkie and Loch Ness falls within that area so we’d decided to head for there and see if we could park up alongside the Loch for the night. We stopped in Fort William for food supplies for lunch, dinner and breakfast and then carried on. We stopped at one point for a cup of tea near Ben Nevis just because one of the great joys of having a campervan is that you can just pull over and have a cup of tea so we try to frequently when the view calls for it :). The threatened gales have not hit us (yet!) but it has rained non stop all day from when we set off and were packing up the van to just after we stopped. At 5pm we were alongside Loch Ness and found a decent parking space right next to it with no ‘No Overnight Parking’ sign up so declared that home for the night and pulled over and put the levellers down.
We sat and enjoyed the views and sang along to songs on Davies’ MP3 player. I suspect a pretty good definition of bliss would be singing along to Daydream Believer with your favourite three people in the world sitting in your campervan looking over loch ness with a rainbow in the background :). You can keep your lottery wins, I don’t think life gets better than this!
We’d decided on pizza for dinner tonight, cheap, easy to cook in the oven, warms the van up nicely and we’ve more than earned a few days of junk food from 2 weeks of incredibily healthy eating ;). In the next few weeks food will be far more on a budget and made ourselves rather than pre bought and processed but tonight it was supermarket pizzas all round. We all had dinner, complied the blogpost of the last host for the WW blog and watched rain stop, the skies clear and a gorgeous moon rise over the loch illuminating everything. There is the odd car still going past which rocks the van a little and I suspect the road will be busy from fairly early in the morning but this view is a pretty amazing beginning to our pulling over when the mood takes us for the night phase of the adventure.
Fingers crossed for a peaceful few hours sleep and some stunning early morning views before we move on tomorrow to Rosemarkie.