Trying to Escape the Earnest Walkers of Fort William - On Our Way to Speyside
August 9th 2010 We entered the highland capital of Fort William thinking it might be a good place to stay.....we were wrong! As we we entered town every single B&B (and there were many of them) had a 'no vacancies' sign out the front. Getting closer to the centre of town it was not hard to understand why. What seemed like hundreds upon hundreds of walkers were out in force. The reason was the rather imposing 'Ben
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