This past week has been eventful! Last Thursday I did the longest hike I've done thus far. It was a 10.5 km (6.5 m) hike with my ex-pat friends. It was the last "official" group hike until fall. Since everyone travels often over the summer, the ex-pat activity groups stop from June-September. Hopefully, I can get an unofficial group together over the next few months to continue push my hiking limits...The leader of this activity group just finished a 3-5 day walk in Barcelona. Her experience was very inspiring....needless to say, 10.5km was nothing for this group.
It was quite a beautiful walk, despite the horrid coastal fog that hovered over us. (Seems like there's always a weather infraction but I'm just glad it wasn't rain and hail). The first half of the walk had a gradual rolling rise inland. We walked to Inverbervie, Benholm, and Gourdon. On the second half of the walk we encountered large patches of the rapeseed plant (I wish they didn't call it that), which is used to make canola oil. The bright yellow plant smelled so good and created a lovely backdrop against the countryside. At one point on the hike I had the scottish countryside (we saw skinny cows!) on my left and the sea on my right. It was pretty awesome.
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| Countryside on my left... |
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| Skinny cow! |
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| Ocean view on my right. |
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