Jane & Dave walking the Cateran Trail 🥾🥾🥾

The sun was streaming into the cabin early, so we were up and off by 7 o’clock in the morning - still can’t believe how lucky we’ve been with the weather! Sad to be leaving, but excited for the next, and last, leg of our journey. Passing by one of the cottages on the outskirts of the estate we noticed an interesting poster. Stopping to read it, the owner appeared (back from her early morning run!), and took us to look at 2 more inside her garden. We so totally loved the sentiments, and had a good laugh at the “daily routine “. She kindly offered us a place to rest in her garden, and water to fill up our bottles, but as we’d only been going @10 minutes we thought we’d better crack on! Buoyed up by such a positive and kind experience we left the Estate, saying goodbye to the ponies on the way. Inspiring sign outside the cottage Totally agree!  Loved this routine 🤣 Saying goodbye to the horses  Everywhere was quiet and calm as we made our way the 7 miles to the Bridge of Cally, ...

Our plan today was to break the last leg of the journey back to Blairgowrie, and visit the eco beaver rewilding estate at Bamff, a couple of miles from Alyth. But before we set off, we were treated to an absolutely delicious breakfast at Tigh Na Leigh. Karen was busy making granola yesterday when we arrived, and hearing that it was one of her specialties, we couldn’t resist trying it. It was absolutely delicious! Dave opted for a full Scottish breakfast to follow, and I chose the delicious fried mushrooms with thyme on sourdough- wonderful!  Looking forward to breakfast  Delicious mushrooms on toast The Cateran Trail from Alyth actually goes through the Bamff estate. We’d read about the accommodation options there, and had opted for the Hideaway cabin, which overlooks some of the beaver pools. As all self catering, we’d chatted with Louise (the owner) before we set off about the challenges of carrying all food provisions for a couple of days, as we were arriving on foot. Louis...

After a good night’s sleep, and our DIY breakfast (very good actually 😃), we set out on what is described as the shortest leg of the journey - let’s wait and see 🤞I was dreading putting my boots on again, but somehow overnight some healing must have occurred, and it didn’t feel too bad. I wonder for how long that feeling will last 🤞There also seemed to be some recovery with Dave’s shoulder 👍 Our goal for today, Alyth Already super hot, we set off, the greatest ascent for the day coming right at the start. After a short sharp climb we reached the top, with great views looking back down to Glenisla. Again the landscape was very gentle, crossing beautiful fields full of yellow gorse, and navigating herds of cows and sheep when traipsing through farms. A mixture of old roads, ancient tracks and trade routes, some much harder (gravel) on the feet than others 🤣 Finding a lovely grassy drovers track, with shade, we stopped for lunch  (and a little snooze) - so grateful to Isobel for ...