Loch Lomond Bikes - 4/18

Xyla and I were sleepy-eyed this morning. She woke up during the night – hot/cold/hot/dark, all sorts of things were going on. I arrived at the room at one point only to hear the child next door making tons of noise. Decided that I would rather knit than sit in bed and hope for quiet. At some point during the night the guy next door was probably having a similar experience. After some knitting, I successfully fell asleep, but woke a couple of times during the night. One of these was courtesy of the hall light which might as well be in our bedroom as it shines right in the window above our door.

After breakfast the girls did a couple of walks down to the lake after breakfast and I got things ready for our lunch. We didn’t have a plan solidified, but knew we were going to see about renting some bicycles and going for a ride. We went into town and after no small amount of searching found the rental trailer. A few months in the UK have taught us that they are none too keen on signage or making things easy to find. Maps never (well, seldom) have a You are here arrow and though we really wanted to find the bike place there were no signs pointing the way, this despite that fact that the rental place was in a major tourist area.

Anyway, we had a nice ride around a county park next to Loch Lomond and the girls enjoyed switching between a solo bike and a clip-on tandem for kids. We went all over the park and there were only a couple of accidents. These were not moving crashes, but rather of the plop over variety.

After the ride we drove to Helensburgh and sat by the bay there.

Nice day. Cooked pizza in the evening. It was slow going as I had to cook on a Holly Hobby oven, but it worked out in the end. Here is a photo of us at dinner.

I am sitting at the moment in the dining room of the hostel. There is a lot of activity, some kids, some couples and the variety of folks one would expect at a hostel. There is also a guy outside completely detailing his BMW X3. He’s spraying stuff all over the leather, he has the brush out and all of the doors open. He took out the carpets and is really going for it. Don’t know why I’m mentioning it. Wait! He just busted out the vacuum cleaner – it plugs into the lightler spot. Is he on vacation? Strange.