JOGLE 5 Day 7 Tue 15 May 12

Started  0845. Finished  1610. 20 miles. Dornoch to Alness. It was a sunny day with rainy, squally showers and windy.  The walking today again was uninspiring. We managed to find a minor road that took us past some interesting scare crows before we joined the main road again and over the longest bridge  of its type in Europe, really? Well all I know is that we had a strong tail wind and were blown across the bridge.  We also passed the Glenmorangie distillery something we can forward to visiting should we ever return to that part of the world.  After passing the distillery we were able to turn off onto a minor road which then took us all the way into Alness and past the William Walton memorial stone.  Ian stopped to have a chat with an  around the coast of Britain walker carrying 4 stone and walking 30-40 miles a day.  This guy was very young and clearly very fit, so good luck and let’s hope he finishes the walk. On our arrival in Alness we headed for the Morvan House Hotel which was on the edge of town.  It was very nice and a little in the 70s.  But the couple who have just taken it over (He is Ex  Army) were making improvements and were very keen to make our stay pleasant.  When we came down for breakfast I found myself being told off for being late for parade and that I should have been their 5 minutes ago, yes, very amusing and it of course brought back some memories and a little bit of reminiscing and discussion of which Units we had served with. We ate out at the local curry house, it was really the only decent eating place.  The rest of the town didn’t do much for us and was on a par with Bridgewater.