Road trip in Scotland #2: Drovers Inn, Tyndrum, The Falls of Dochart
- Lucie Jung
- 31 oct. 2015
- 3 min de lecture
Here is the second part of this trip (and the last one).
The Drovers Inn
After having seen the Balloch Castle and the wonderful village of Luss (see first part), we continued to drive towards the top of the Loch Lomond.
Once there, we found a little place called the Drovers Inn. This place was really nice and uncommon. Everything is decorated in an old way and as soon as you enter it's as if you were back in the past. Also, you can come face to face with a stuffed grizzly bear or bump into a fake wolf...
This place was really nice and disorienting in the sense that I've never seen a place like that and because every details were here to make you feel in another time: inside it was really dark, dim and gloomy. Even the waiter/waitress 'played the game' and wore a kind of kilt, etc.
The food was nice. I ordered a vegetarian haggis. I've never tried it before but it was good.
Anyway, I think it was really nice and that if you drive around here, you have to see this place.
Tyndrum
Once we finished to eat we drove until Tyndrum. This is a nice place but we didn't really stopped here because the night falls very quickly here, even more in October annnnnnd even more quickly since we changed to winter time 2 days ago.
We had a lot more to see so we preferred to privilege and focus on the next stop :The falls of Dochart. However, we stopped to take some pictures: once you arrive here, there is such a wonderful view on the highlands which is quiet impressive that you can't just keep driving whitout stopping to capture the moment.
The Falls of Dochart
We took the road 15-20 minutes more to go at the Falls of Dochart, in Killin, which was a place I really wanted to see. It was simply stunning. This place is wonderful.
(picture by Cécile Jung)
We went to drink a coffee/beer in the place just near to the falls: Falls of Dochart Inn before taking the road up again. It was a really nice and typical pub. We could taste a beer of this place, and it was pretty good.
Callander
On our way to go back in Glasgow, we stopped in the city of Callander. I wanted to see the Falls of Callander which could be a nice place to visit too, but at the time we arrived here, it was already really dark outside. We arrived and parked the car. We started to walk in direction of the falls but once we were here we couldn't see anything at all... We even had turned on the flashlights of our phones but it was even worse.
Anyway, the walk to go there was maybe 15-20minutes. At the end, we didn't see a lot but it was still nice because we could hear the sound of the wind and the water and I felt like a true adventurer for a few minutes, walking in the night without seing anything.
Port of Mentheit
We drove towards the Port of Mentheit just to see the place before going back to Glasgow. I know that at this place you can take a ferry to go at the Inchmahome Priory, which I would have loved to do... But again: it was too dark outside and it's closing earlier in winter time. :(
To sum up, this day was incredible even if 1 day is maybe too short. I saw amazing places but I think my favorite ones for now are Luss and the Falls of Dochart.
Thank you for reading ! :)
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