Well it seems that this glorious spell of wonderful weather is about to fizzle out in a few days time, we will be back to what we know best, a bit on the cold side, windy and wet. However it was great while it lasted, who knows, perhaps it will come back again, SOON.
Ward Toll, a cross roads and a garden centre.
I took the bike along another road that I haven't been for a few years, up past Ward Toll, turn right and head down to Buchlyvie, turn right along the road from Stirling, then soup and coffee at Ballot Toll. For some reason I can't find the name "Ballot Toll" on the google map.
Buchlyvie, needs to see to its roads.
The decision to take the B road to Buchlyvie was a big mistake, for about 1-1.5 miles, the road surface is atrocious, difficult to describe it other than there must be a law against call a piece of ground like that "A Road". you then get a couple of miles of fairly decent surface, then it gets worse than the first bit. The section after you go over the wee hump bridge and start to climb up to the main road, defies description. I thought as I turned onto the main road from Stirling that it would be a good surface, it is not, for the first mile or so, it is a nightmare, it does eventually turn into what could be called "A Road". I would recommend that anybody with a decent road bike should not go anywhere near the Ward Toll to Buchlyvie road.
Ballot Toll, one of my favourite watering holes when out on the bike.
From Ballot Toll, I went on to Drymen, then on through Croftamie and on to Glengoyn, famed for its single malt whisky.
Ptarmigan Pub Drymen.
Glengoyn Distillery.
Despite the miles of excuses for roads, it was a wonderful day out.
Another view from Drymen Square.
