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After checking out of the Bank Street Lodge this morning we walked around the corner to the grassy area in front of the church at the centre of Fort William to sit in the sun while we waited for our lunchtime train back to Glasgow. To kill some time, we took it in turns to go to Tesco to buy newspapers and food for the journey, and to the station to buy tickets. Then we all went to the Nevisport Café for a late breakfast.

Eventually it was time to head to the station to catch our train. The train journey home is an absolute treat, twisting it’s way slowly around the hills and lochs, and takes around 4 hours. It starts by heading north-east around the massive bulk of Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor into Glen Spean before turning south by Loch Treig.

Gregor wasn’t as interested in the scenery as Mark.

It continues on over the bleak beauty of Rannoch Moor, through Bridge of Orchy and around the bottoms of Beinn Dòrain and Beinn Odhar, with good views up into Gleann Ach’ -innis Chailein.

The train then passes through Tyndrum and Crianlarich and down into Glen Falloch, following (in reverse) the route we’d walked, to the head of Loch Lomond. It heads down the west side of the loch, allowing us to look over to where we’d been walking on the opposite side, and gives some sense of how far we’d walked over the past week.

A few kilometres down Loch Lomond the route turns south-west and follows the edge of Loch Long and the Gare Loch to the Firth of Clyde where the landscape starts to become more industrial, and hence friends make better photographic subjects.

And eventually we pulled into Queen Street station in Glasgow where our journey came to an end.