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    The Two of Us on the West Highland Way: Our hiking experiences in Scotland
    The Two of Us on the West Highland Way: Our hiking experiences in Scotland
    The Two of Us on the West Highland Way: Our hiking experiences in Scotland
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    The Two of Us on the West Highland Way: Our hiking experiences in Scotland

    By Sonja Kofelenz, Maria Kofelenz and Patrick O´Hara

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    Sonja: I walked the West Highland Way with my daughter Maria. It led us along small country roads, wide forest roads and old military roads, along small streams, along paths through heather and pastures to our destination at Fort William.
    The course required a certain endurance and fitness, but always rewarded us with a breath-taking landscape.

    Maria: I walked the West Highland Way with my mother. While we enjoyed some hours of sunshine, we often had to walk in drizzle or heavy rain, over hill and dale, through mist and, at times, in very humid air. After 10 days we arrived, satisfied and happy, in sunshine in Fort William.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateSep 9, 2019
    ISBN9783749476633
    The Two of Us on the West Highland Way: Our hiking experiences in Scotland
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    Sonja Kofelenz

    Sonja Kofelenz, geb. 1967, lebt mit ihrer Familie in Reutte und arbeitet als Bibliothekarin. Interessen: Lesen, Musik, Kultur, Garten, Radfahren und Wandern.

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      Book preview

      The Two of Us on the West Highland Way - Sonja Kofelenz

      For

      Patrick O'Hara

      and our friends

      Nicole, John, Sean, Blanaid and Emer

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      The West Highland Way

      The two of us - on the West Highland Way

      Harry Potter included

      Route planning with small hurdles

      Yes, the fitness... and then came Pokemon to Go

      What do we put in backpack?

      Saturday, 27.8.2016

      Milngavie

      Sunday: 28. 8. 2016

      The Glengoyne Distillery

      Monday: 29. 8. 2016

      Tuesday, 30.8.2016

      Wednesday, 31.8.2016

      Thursday, 1.9.2016

      The trails along the West Highland Way:

      Friday, 2.9.2016

      Saturday, 3.9.2016

      Holiday fund - how much our holiday cost

      Sunday: 4. 9. 2016

      Monday: 5. 9. 2016

      Tuesday: 6. 9. 2016

      Wednesday, 7. 9. 2016

      Thursday, 8. 9. 2016

      Friday, 9. 9. 2016

      Saturday, 10. 9. 2016

      Preface

      Sonja: I walked the West Highland Way with my daughter Maria. It led us along small country roads, wide forest roads and old military roads, along small streams, along paths through heather and pastures to our destination at Fort William.

      The course required a certain endurance and fitness, but always rewarded us with a breath-taking landscape.

      Maria: I walked the West Highland Way with my mother. While we enjoyed some hours of sunshine, we often had to walk in drizzle or heavy rain, over hill and dale, through mist and, at times, in very humid air. After 10 days we arrived, satisfied and happy, in sunshine in Fort William.

      The West Highland Way

      The West Highland Way is Scotland‘s first official long-distance hiking trail, opened in 1980. It stretches from Milngavie, a suburb of Glasgow, to Fort William, a distance of 154 km.

      The starting point is in the Lowlands and the route goes northwards through a constantly-changing landscape. The highest elevation is at the Devil´s Staircase (584 m).

      The trail can be followed all year round. Every year about 50,000 hikers come to take on and enjoy the challenge. Most of the West Highland Way runs along many old roads, mostly livestock routes, military roads and old makeshift roads. The symbol of a stylized white thistle in a white hexagon serves as a landmark and can be easily recognized everywhere.

      Most hikers take the route from south to north so that they will have the sun (when it shines) behind them and will not be blinded by it.

      The two of us - on the West Highland Way

      Why should a mother and daughter want to do such a long hike together? I can think of several reasons. One was my ulterior motive of helping my daughter to improve her English. I also saw it as an opportunity for the two of us to holiday together; such an opportunity might not arise again as Maria grew older.

      The dream of the long-distance hiking trail had been haunting my mind for some time and so I thought this was the chance. One needs sufficient free time to undertake such a route. While this would not be a problem for me I could not leave my seventeen-year-old daughter at home alone while I was absent. So I decided that Maria had to come with me. I planned the individual stages of the walk to suit us both.

      Maria would have preferred to go to Australia, but unfortunately our travel budget was not big enough. Although we had been to Scotland four times already, Maria was happy to go there again. We both like hiking and there would be plenty of interesting things to see and a lot of nice things to eat. Backpacking seemed like adventure. So we decided to take it on.

      Here, dear readers, you will find a short description of both of us:

      At the time of the trip, Maria was seventeen years old and still attending high school in Reutte. In her free time she surfed the internet, painted her fingernails three times a week and now and then accompanied me on

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