Away from the usual city tours - A walk around Glencoe Loch, close to the scene of the infamous Glencoe Massacre of 1692.
It really felt as if I was walking with Craig our guide, the landscape full of rhododendron, lichen, moss & fir trees reaching high into the sky. We passed babbling brooks, and the views across the loch were amazing with beautiful reflections.
The trails were planted with North American trees by Lord Strathcona in the 1890s – he hoped they his homesick Canadian wife.
Glen Coe achieved notoriety in 1692 as the site of a bloody massacre perpetrated by government troops under of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon.
An unfortunate delay in expressing allegiance to King William III brought about a tragic series of events that led to the lost of over eighty members of the Clan MacDonald from either violence at the hands of the redcoats or through exposure during their flight into the hills.
