Loch Lomond
- November 5, 2000
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akakd from , Arizona
Before dipping down into Glasgow, we drove up to Loch Lomond to have a picnic and walk along its 'Bonnie, Bonnie Banks.' After a rather long drive from Edinburgh, stopping in a few towns en route, we were ready for some R&R and were thus drawn by the beautiful scenery and fresh lakeside air of Britain's largest lake. You may remember the old folk song about Loch Lomond sung the world over. The song tells of two Scottish soldiers after the Jacobite uprising of 1745. One is said to have been executed in Carlisle, but the other was free to roam the "bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond". You can almost feel the melancholy with the words goin' round in your head as you look out over the misty lake.
From journal Glorious Glasgow