Loch Lomand and its islands

Day 2: Hiking Conic Hill, crazy weather and all

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June 29th 2012
We had a lovely Scottish day today! Took the train up to Balloch – that in itself was fun as we slightly miscalculated our timing and ended up running for the train haha. But we got it! The best was the guy behind us who launched himself into the train and loudly exclaimed: HA! DAMN RIGHT! and then just calmly walked over to a seat. Train ride was pretty – lots of small towns and cows. In Ba ... read more

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