[Tuesday 13th May, 2025]

I pack up the van and leave Fortrose behind. Drive to the end-point of today’s planned walk, North Kessock, where I sit in my van looking at the miserable view of Inverness across the water.

Perhaps the rain will stop soon, and the mist will clear up?

I eat my lunch. I read my book. Think about life and how ironic it is that I have survived oesophageal cancer, but my beautiful 36 year old daughter is living with a small baby and stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. For a while, I wish I was at home and with my family and friends.

Will this rain ever stop?

Dear reader, it doesn’t stop.

After a couple of hours, I give myself a shake. It is too late to do any serious walking today, but I can drive to my next residence – a whole house to myself in a place called Lochside, just east of Inverness. There are a few more days of walking to be done, before I pack up and start off on the long drive down to Manchester.

Miles walked today = 0

The featured image in the header was generated by AI. Apparently, this is an AI impression of what Inverness looks like!!!!