Today we began the long jaunt home. Split over two days, we finished breakfast and set off for Kilchurn Castle (15th and 17th century, in a rather scenic location on the end of Loch Awe) which was on the way home. By about midday I was flagging - I had a random bout of insomnia last night and my body decided that I didn't need to go to sleep until 3am which resulted in a total of about 3 hours sleep! (Note to body/brain: I really actually need a lot more sleep than this, okay?)
We were going to stop off at Dunbarton Castle but we could both tell that I wouldn't have been able to get right up there and into it as I was literally falling asleep in my seat..! So we continued on a little on the motorway around Glasgow until we found the services and we had lunch and a drink in Costa which perked me up a bit. We made it to our last stop over in Armathwaite, called "The Fox and Pheasant" and chilled out in our room watching some Wimbledon until it was time for dinner, for which we had booked a table downstairs. Our room was really nice with really big windows looking out onto the main, but very quiet road, behind it a field of sheep. For dinner, eventually we got our food after about a 50 minute wait (!), the food was delicious and wasn't just your ordinary pub grub.
Our final day on Sunday was spent on the home straight via Wensleydale to buy some cheese (of course!), going along the scenic route through the Dales which were decorated with bunting for the Tour De France the following weekend. We were back home in Leicestershire in time to chill out and relax in the afternoon.
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