A walk from Inverness to Drumnadrochit

It’s been a long ambition of mine to walk from Inverness to Drumnadrochit, the first twenty or so miles of the Great Glen Way that snakes its way southwards to Fort William. It’s a walk I’ve looked at often on the map, walked the first few miles of many times, and which has even formed part of the basis of one of my imagined travelogues.

For me, one attraction of a walk from Inverness to Drumnadrochit its simplicity. Walking is the most straightforward mode of transport: you just put one foot...