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Machrie Moor

Date:
23.10.2011
Characteristic:
Walk
Duration:
4:15h
Distance:
4.8km

Started walking from Lochranza down the west coast of Isle of Arran until we managed to hitchhike to the entrance of the moor. Despite the weather, we had a splendid tour among the many stone circles and standing stones of Machrie Moor. To be honest, I've never seen so many stone formations in one place before. After a whilwe the rain intensified and started leaking into my low cut wellingtons. Fortunately we had had the time to get a good look on the moor and its mysterious preserves from the past before the rain got too heavy, so we decided it was time to go home. Luckily we managed to rather quickly get a ride, and even more luckily a ride with a nice feller who drove us all the way to the entrance of the youth hostel we were staying at. With me on tour: Claire.

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Cock of Arran & Laggan Cottage

Date:
22.10.2011
Characteristic:
Hike
Duration:
4:15h
Distance:
12.8km

My first walk on my rainy weekend on Ilse of Arran. Despite poor clothing, bad weather and getting a cut while falling in the slippery mud of a slope, it was a nice tour of the northern top of the island. Starting at the cozy youth hostel in Lochranza, going up the car road for a while before realizing my chosen path went straight through mud land. After a small falling incident in the mud I managed to get down to the water and continue walking along the coast, passing Cock of Arran and Laggan Cottage before returning over the hill back to the youth hostel.

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