(The above is on my phone’s Home Screen. It makes me smile!)

When I received the information from Mickledore about where we’d be staying on our Great Glen Way walk I was informed that some of the villages only had one restaurant so it would be a good idea to book a reservation. These past few days I’ve been working on this. Some restaurants have a reservation portal (if that’s what one calls it … sounds good anyway, right?!), with one I went via Facebook, and some do email. But at this point I’ve done all the restaurants but two. One wrote back to say it’s walk-ins only, so we’ll just take our chances, and the other, which had a form to fill out online, hasn’t replied. Trouble with this last one is that they really are the only restaurant in town! The backup plan there, though, is that the place we are staying at does offer up dinners … or so our info said. So maybe it’s true. But the info from Mickledore also included something about another place we are staying, saying the owners were happy to drive us to a nearby town for dinner. Writing to the owners I asked them, and was informed that they don’t do that; ownership has changed and that was the old owner. Ah well. We are at that lodging two nights and will eat twice at the only restaurant in town. The owners did kindly book the restaurant for us since I would have had to call them and I prefer not making an international call.

But, ramble, ramble … I’m nearly done with all of that.

We are still pondering the “poles or no poles” thing. I’m betting we take them if we have to check luggage due to the amount we have to bring and we won’t take them if we only do carryon.

News you can won’t use!

Sometimes I wish I’d timed all of this planning to see just how many hours — or is it days?! — it has taken me thus far. But too late now. I just know I spend a huge amount of time researching, reserving, canceling, reserving again … the fun and joy of trip preparation!

No, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do love doing this!