Roger's Walkabout : TGO Challenge 19/05/26

Day 13, Glenisla to Kirriemuir

Very heavy rain overnight and still raining hard in the morning. The forecast was for rain all day and the clouds were low on the hills.

Tartan wrapped Reliant at the Glenisla Hotel

I decided not to go over my last hill, Cat Law, in the pouring rain with no visibility and just walked the road to Kirriemuir.

A wet morning

I was happy with the decision even though the rain eased and stopped altogether by lunch time. The cloud was still very low and the visibility would have been terrible on the top.

Thank you very much for the coffee and conversation Ian.

I walked past a house and said hello to someone in the garden and he stopped me, asked if I was doing the TGO and invited me in for a coffee. Great hospitality.

Carpenter Oak

He was a retired blacksmith and had worked for the last twenty years at Carpenter Oak, a company specialising in oak frame buildings, based a bit further down the road. An interesting man.

Sky clearing

It was a pleasant road with little traffic and I soon reached Kirriemuir, just in time before the café closed.

Highland cows and oilseed rape

Kirriemuir is the birthplace of J M Barrie the creator of Peter Pan. There is a Peter Pan statue in the square which has some good, old buildings but I couldn't find anything else very interesting.