Thanks Scott! Like many towns in Scotland, I'm not too keen on the 'toon centre' but boy does it have a perfect location with so much to see steps away from the dreariness as you showed us today!
Yes, I concur. We had 2 holidays around Ft William and the town seemed to have deteriorated in the interim. But the scenery around is superb of course. I remember enjoying watching the goings on at Corpach locks.
@@briangentle5515 I first visited Fort William in the 80s and then 2019. It looked marginally more attractive on the second visit but it still feels like a settlement on a major road, rather than a place to visit. Anyone passing through on the A82 would surely avoid it!
@@roginkTrouble is most A82 travellers only see the backs of the buildings on the Town Centre from the relief road, which is built on the old railway line and station. Famously, most towns look terrible from the railway
@@poppysherlock3922 Thanks. I hadn't thought about the A82 being the old railway line. But I'd disagree about most towns looking terrible from the railway. Most UK cities were built around the railway - I'd say arriving by train to a city centre gives a much greater sense of anticipation and even excitement, than arriving by road.
I really enjoyed you great video. I would love to ride the train, walk the west highland way and walk the wonderful beach! Thank you for the snapshot of Fort William. It looks amazing!
You're lucky ! You caught Ben Nevis at its best probably. What a lovely walk and some pretty scenery to go by- enjoyed it all the way. Maybe you should have completed it because I doubt you'll get such gorgeous weather again .
Oh Scott, I laughed when you mentioned your anecdote about scotch. That same thing happened to me--a little kid, bad bad cold, mum fixed me a hot toddy, nearly puked, fixed my cold, but I still can't even stand the smell of scotch (and I'm 76).
Yeah I'm the same Scottish through n through but can't stand whisky🤢only good for cleaning your alloy wheels I get it tight every time I'm out with my best bud he says I can't be Scottish if I don't like whisky utter b.s 😊
As a company rep I called the Morrisons store monthly for 12 years as part of a trip which took a week to call Dundee, Aberdeen, Elgin, Inverness and up as far as Tain visiting major stores...bloody loved it.
Great video. I walked the Great Glen way last September and I can highly recommend it. Following those blue thistles all the way to Inverness past Loch Ness is a great experience. I also visited the distillery in Fort William and went on a boat ride round the Loch and saw the seals there as well.
I join the others encouraging you to do the Great Glen Way; it's a beautiful, easy (it's pretty flat because it follows the Caledonian Canal) walk, and all the people I met were great - like the lads I met who were fishing at the north-east end of Loch Lochy. They saw me eating my sad, solitary snack of a Mars Bar ( so not super-sad) and invited me to join them for the bacon and black pudding rolls they were cooking on their camping stove. Made my day - and I saved the rest of my Mars for later!
It’s almost a year to the day I was here. Yes I did climb Ben Nevis and for the following days we were here we weren’t as mobile 😂. I absolutely loved it here, I’d definitely go back. Had my first full Scottish at Lochaber Cafe
This is my favourite places on earth been coming here for 20 years walking the glen Nevis, also glenfinnan but sadly it’s completely changed, so many tourists now but walk further away from the viaduct it can still be peaceful
Great memories! My uncle is originally from Fort William and he took me on the Jacobite long before it was called the “Harry Potter train” and at a time when the class 37s pulled that sleeper train. Spent 3 days in FW. Great video Scott! Greetings from Canada
Hi What a fantastic video...........As an exiled Scot of Scot a Greenockian. You have travelled to one my fourvite places Fort William. Like you I did not like whisky until I was introduced to Gen Grant. I will guarantee this will change your opinion. Regards Crawford
Really like this channel. Excellent in content and quality. But a small criticism if I may? I read the comments and sometimes there are questions, or all round complimentary remarks. Be nice if the could be acknowledged? Ala Macmaster (get well soon) or Walk With Tim. Cheers Scott.👍
Scott, baked beans are a staple here in Quebec! Ans scotch whisky is THE greatest of all beverages, especially those from the islands. Slainte! Love yours vids. Love your humour. Love all your travelling!
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the fort was dismantled in the 19th century to make room for the railway. No one seems to mention its destruction in the 1970s.
And how many do go to photograph the MV Dayspring spoiling that marvellous scenery? What an old crock ... I'm sure that if I left my car around and let it get into that state, the council would soon get rid of it and bill me for the privilege. My preference for a landscape shot of Ben Nevis and Fort William is on the shore just west of Corpach station. Far more picturesque. And the water used at the aluminium works comes from Loch Treig, not too far from Corrour. As far as I know, it only generates power at the works and is not used in the refining process. Happy to be corrected on that.
Could that depression in the ground on the far right of the trail at 9:54 be a bottle dump? The "Argo" looks like a fixer-upper. 😄 I'm old enough that I remember steam trains, Scott. I also recall my Gram grumbling about soot in the air when she'd hang laundry out to dry.
I've cycled the Great Glen Way, it's fantastic. As for whisky, I grew up at Laphroaig and Tormore, then worked at Springbank and Auchentoshan, I love the smell and process of making whisky, but like you, the taste is just not for me at all.
Great video. You would have walked past our house on your travels. Would disagree about one thing. Those boats!!! A lot of locals, including me, see those boats as an eyesore and want the Highland Council to do something about it.
As a child my (wise) parents allowed me a sip of whisky which I immediately spat out. Some years later I got a taste for it - largely because of the utterly foul nature of 1980's Scottish beer (N.B. things are much better now - some of it is even drinkable!).
I don't like Scotch either but I like Irn-Bru. Does that redeem me ? I really should drag my girlfriend to Scotland one day. She would be completely in an alien world, cold, not speaking the language, but she would find it a beautiful place nevertheless.
Baked beans are an English impor tfort breakfast. If you like that, fine---but it not traditional. Maybe potato scones? Demolishing The fort.... think of its historyI am still amazed that the town is called zfter that man. My late husband's gradfather on his mother's side was provost of Fort William so it has aplace in my heart.
Not my favourite town, the bypass dominates (I'm sure that was also a reason why the Fort was demolished) and it is far too busy. Give me Oban for my favourite west coast town. I will however always remember the place as it was last summer while I was stuck in traffic (again) outside the Ben Nevis distillery that news broke Boris Johnson had resigned. I do also like whisky, have visited 40-50 Scottish ones over the years and bought a bottle at each one. A few are saved, but many are now consumed. Thankfully there are plenty more to try!
The Great Glen Way. Mmm. I've walked it both ways, I found it easier to start at Inverness and walk to Fort William via Fort Augustus. Is the Dutch barge The Eagle still serving as a restaurant at Langham Locks.
As a Scot of almost 80 years I've never ever heard that pronunciation and I've visited the town on many occasions. Given that the English are well known for mangling Scottish place names so badly I think I'll do what the rest of Scotland will - sit back and have a laugh at yet another one.
@@alasdairmackenzie905 Oh the irony. Another Scot (YET another Scot) who should have thought before typing his rhetoric. It was a resident of Mallaig that advised me how it is pronounced. I had nothing to do with it.
Sorry to call you out but 'Full Scottish' with Black Pudding (Lancashire) and a plum tomato (Italy)? No White Pudding (yes a Scottish breakfast dish)? Ladies and gentlemen, this fella appears to be Redcoat spy, take what he says with a pinch of salt...not a fistful of salt as you would for most Scottish dishes.🧂
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 Well done my friend, wasn't even aware Stornoway made a black pudding (pretty sure Scott wasn't getting the Stornoway article though). There is a few on the market, any brand above the others?
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 Got my MacCleod Stornoway black pudding in the post today, had it with scrambled egg and smoked salmon on toast. You were right, absolutely delicious. Beef suet first ingredient though, a treat rather than a regular meal, but great tip pal.👍
What I love about Fort William, The weatherspoons next to the end of the West highland way. Perfect!
Thanks Scott! Like many towns in Scotland, I'm not too keen on the 'toon centre' but boy does it have a perfect location with so much to see steps away from the dreariness as you showed us today!
Hi Steve I agree the High Street is not the best but Loch Linnhe is fantastic. Regards Crawford
Yes, I concur. We had 2 holidays around Ft William and the town seemed to have deteriorated in the interim. But the scenery around is superb of course. I remember enjoying watching the goings on at Corpach locks.
@@briangentle5515 I first visited Fort William in the 80s and then 2019. It looked marginally more attractive on the second visit but it still feels like a settlement on a major road, rather than a place to visit. Anyone passing through on the A82 would surely avoid it!
@@roginkTrouble is most A82 travellers only see the backs of the buildings on the Town Centre from the relief road, which is built on the old railway line and station. Famously, most towns look terrible from the railway
@@poppysherlock3922 Thanks. I hadn't thought about the A82 being the old railway line. But I'd disagree about most towns looking terrible from the railway.
Most UK cities were built around the railway - I'd say arriving by train to a city centre gives a much greater sense of anticipation and even excitement, than arriving by road.
It's not only Ben Nevis that's become steeper, I've noticed a general trend devoloping over the years😊
Just finished walking the Great Glen Way and your video has brought back wonderful memories of my 1st day of the walk.😊
Yes go for the great glen way scott. You could do a series and it would be awesome content as per usual.
Brilliant Video Scott - very enjoyable watch.
I really enjoyed you great video. I would love to ride the train, walk the west highland way and walk the wonderful beach! Thank you for the snapshot of Fort William. It looks amazing!
Scott please make lots of travel vidz.they learn me.thanks David from Stirling x
Hi Scott, yes go and do the Great Glen Way, would make a great film and do these things while you can, the years already go quickly.
Great video Scott .
Yet another excellent up load.
Beautiful part of the country thanks scott enjoyed
Rare to hear a scotsman refer to whisky as ‘scotch’ 🏴🥃🏴🥃🏴🥃
Good stuff .
Great video. Lovely place, Fort William. Shame you didn't include a visit to Claggan Park, home of the mighty Fort William F.C.
Some great shots there Scott, thanks.
Great pic of the loch with the steam train in the background
Stunning, 👍🏻
Ireland you get baked beans for breakfast, wouldn't be a full irish without them 👍
Superb ❤ love Fort William
beautiful locations
In Australia we can get baked beans with our full breakfasts however we can never get link/lorne sausage or potato scone.
Beautiful scenery
You're lucky ! You caught Ben Nevis at its best probably. What a lovely walk and some pretty scenery to go by- enjoyed it all the way. Maybe you should have completed it because I doubt you'll get such gorgeous weather again .
Looked so nice Scott
Great video Scott thoroughly enjoyed watching it
Oh Scott, I laughed when you mentioned your anecdote about scotch. That same thing happened to me--a little kid, bad bad cold, mum fixed me a hot toddy, nearly puked, fixed my cold, but I still can't even stand the smell of scotch (and I'm 76).
Yeah I'm the same Scottish through n through but can't stand whisky🤢only good for cleaning your alloy wheels I get it tight every time I'm out with my best bud he says I can't be Scottish if I don't like whisky utter b.s 😊
I always wondered what the scenery around Fort William looks like when there are no rainclouds 3 feet above the ground. I like it. Cheers!
keep them coming,great vid.hope you visit oxford some time.let me know,then i,ll go elsewhere!,only joking .
As a company rep I called the Morrisons store monthly for 12 years as part of a trip which took a week to call Dundee, Aberdeen, Elgin, Inverness and up as far as Tain visiting major stores...bloody loved it.
That would have been Safeways for some of that time?
Good video
My town ..... nuff said !!
“If you’re interested in water water outflows..”🙂 Hold me back, Sir!
Great video. I walked the Great Glen way last September and I can highly recommend it. Following those blue thistles all the way to Inverness past Loch Ness is a great experience. I also visited the distillery in Fort William and went on a boat ride round the Loch and saw the seals there as well.
All the times I’ve been to Fort William, I never knew there was a castle in Inverlochy! Really enjoyed this video, opened my eyes to the town
Looks a lovely place
Scotch????!!! From a Scot an all!! W H I S K Y....😂😂
I join the others encouraging you to do the Great Glen Way; it's a beautiful, easy (it's pretty flat because it follows the Caledonian Canal) walk, and all the people I met were great - like the lads I met who were fishing at the north-east end of Loch Lochy. They saw me eating my sad, solitary snack of a Mars Bar ( so not super-sad) and invited me to join them for the bacon and black pudding rolls they were cooking on their camping stove. Made my day - and I saved the rest of my Mars for later!
Awesome video Scott! Another segment to add to my upcoming return trip to the ancestral homeland!
It’s almost a year to the day I was here. Yes I did climb Ben Nevis and for the following days we were here we weren’t as mobile 😂. I absolutely loved it here, I’d definitely go back. Had my first full Scottish at Lochaber Cafe
This is my favourite places on earth been coming here for 20 years walking the glen Nevis, also glenfinnan but sadly it’s completely changed, so many tourists now but walk further away from the viaduct it can still be peaceful
keep going
Brilliant views sir
Great memories! My uncle is originally from Fort William and he took me on the Jacobite long before it was called the “Harry Potter train” and at a time when the class 37s pulled that sleeper train. Spent 3 days in FW. Great video Scott! Greetings from Canada
Hi What a fantastic video...........As an exiled Scot of Scot a Greenockian. You have travelled to one my fourvite places Fort William. Like you I did not like whisky until I was introduced to Gen Grant. I will guarantee this will change your opinion. Regards Crawford
Fort William was up to this May, my second favourite place in Scotland, now superseded by Oban. My first being Speyside.
Well not quite a ful Irish breakfast can have baked beans too, now traditionally I don't think they were included but they can be in this day and age.
Really like this channel.
Excellent in content and quality.
But a small criticism if I may?
I read the comments and sometimes there are questions, or all round complimentary remarks.
Be nice if the could be acknowledged?
Ala Macmaster (get well soon) or Walk With Tim.
Cheers Scott.👍
Scott, baked beans are a staple here in Quebec! Ans scotch whisky is THE greatest of all beverages, especially those from the islands. Slainte! Love yours vids. Love your humour. Love all your travelling!
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the fort was dismantled in the 19th century to make room for the railway. No one seems to mention its destruction in the 1970s.
Hey Scott,,, have you done the p&o Ferry mini cruise from Hull to Rottadam yet?
Love your chanel 😊
And how many do go to photograph the MV Dayspring spoiling that marvellous scenery? What an old crock ... I'm sure that if I left my car around and let it get into that state, the council would soon get rid of it and bill me for the privilege.
My preference for a landscape shot of Ben Nevis and Fort William is on the shore just west of Corpach station. Far more picturesque.
And the water used at the aluminium works comes from Loch Treig, not too far from Corrour. As far as I know, it only generates power at the works and is not used in the refining process. Happy to be corrected on that.
Could that depression in the ground on the far right of the trail at 9:54 be a bottle dump? The "Argo" looks like a fixer-upper. 😄 I'm old enough that I remember steam trains, Scott. I also recall my Gram grumbling about soot in the air when she'd hang laundry out to dry.
I've cycled the Great Glen Way, it's fantastic. As for whisky, I grew up at Laphroaig and Tormore, then worked at Springbank and Auchentoshan, I love the smell and process of making whisky, but like you, the taste is just not for me at all.
Sadly you can’t board the Jacobite mid journey, only at Fort William and Mallaig
I have been to Ben Nevis and Fort William.
LMS Stanier Class in the opening credit dam near brought on a religious experience scott.
just a Black 5 showing exactly what they were designed for- go almost anywhere, do almost anything
Scott, what you love an Irish dram instead 😂. The Trim is not bad, could have been much shorter and tighter.
Great video. You would have walked past our house on your travels. Would disagree about one thing. Those boats!!! A lot of locals, including me, see those boats as an eyesore and want the Highland Council to do something about it.
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I arrived on the Caledonian Sleeper service just before the steam engine left the station.
Scott - have you looked into the story of the "Sugar boat" in the clyde?
He's done a great video from there!
Kind of funny whenever I smell Scotch I get nauseous the taste of the tastes like wood laughing out loud
As a child my (wise) parents allowed me a sip of whisky which I immediately spat out. Some years later I got a taste for it - largely because of the utterly foul nature of 1980's Scottish beer (N.B. things are much better now - some of it is even drinkable!).
It's not what I'm looking for! I always think the same in my life.
There are so many “sketchy” reasons for a lot of demolished old buildings. Watch Jon Levi
You should actually walk the Hebridean way its magnificent.
A tot of wikky in hot, sweet tea put the world to rights when I was five or so.
I didn’t know the Caledonian canal was twinned with the Rideau canal
How about butter, vinegar and honey? I kid you not, I was forced to take this aged about 8. They even made me clean up the vomit!
Beans for breakfast? Province of Quebec
I don't like Scotch either but I like Irn-Bru. Does that redeem me ?
I really should drag my girlfriend to Scotland one day. She would be completely in an alien world, cold, not speaking the language, but she would find it a beautiful place nevertheless.
Scotch makes you barf but if its Burns night then have at it haha
Baked beans are an English impor tfort breakfast. If you like that, fine---but it not traditional. Maybe potato scones? Demolishing The fort.... think of its historyI am still amazed that the town is called zfter that man. My late husband's gradfather on his mother's side was provost of Fort William so it has aplace in my heart.
thailand spain dubai any country where theres expat british u get beans inported for the tourists
Not my favourite town, the bypass dominates (I'm sure that was also a reason why the Fort was demolished) and it is far too busy. Give me Oban for my favourite west coast town.
I will however always remember the place as it was last summer while I was stuck in traffic (again) outside the Ben Nevis distillery that news broke Boris Johnson had resigned.
I do also like whisky, have visited 40-50 Scottish ones over the years and bought a bottle at each one. A few are saved, but many are now consumed. Thankfully there are plenty more to try!
eah Scott, take heed: Oban video please!
My Dad’s remedy for a cold was hot milk with scotch. It works!
The Great Glen Way. Mmm. I've walked it both ways, I found it easier to start at Inverness and walk to Fort William via Fort Augustus. Is the Dutch barge The Eagle still serving as a restaurant at Langham Locks.
Mick yes it is, the Eagle Barge is still there at Laggan.
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 thank you for the reply. I had a lovely meal there when I was on the return journey to Inverness.
my dad's cure was eggnog with brandy - much much nicer
As an Englishman I take ironic pride in advising a Scot it is pronounced Mallug, not Mallaig...
As a Scot of almost 80 years I've never ever heard that pronunciation and I've visited the town on many occasions. Given that the English are well known for mangling Scottish place names so badly I think I'll do what the rest of Scotland will - sit back and have a laugh at yet another one.
‘Mallig’ for want of a better way of writing it is the pronunciation
@@alasdairmackenzie905 Oh the irony. Another Scot (YET another Scot) who should have thought before typing his rhetoric. It was a resident of Mallaig that advised me how it is pronounced. I had nothing to do with it.
You’re 100% Scott.. Irish is better..😊
Sorry to call you out but 'Full Scottish' with Black Pudding (Lancashire) and a plum tomato (Italy)? No White Pudding (yes a Scottish breakfast dish)? Ladies and gentlemen, this fella appears to be Redcoat spy, take what he says with a pinch of salt...not a fistful of salt as you would for most Scottish dishes.🧂
Black Pudding - Stornoway black pudding - from Stornoway, in the western isles. Beat all other black pudding hands down
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 Well done my friend, wasn't even aware Stornoway made a black pudding (pretty sure Scott wasn't getting the Stornoway article though). There is a few on the market, any brand above the others?
The Charles Macleod Stornoway black pudding is the best in my personal opinion, and I’m sure I speak for many others when I say that
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 Thanks, I'll give it a go.
@@CoachdriverScotland2023 Got my MacCleod Stornoway black pudding in the post today, had it with scrambled egg and smoked salmon on toast. You were right, absolutely delicious. Beef suet first ingredient though, a treat rather than a regular meal, but great tip pal.👍
GOAT
Great video Scott