Cape Wrath Walk

The past months had been quite a comfortable and exuberant time for me. My fascination during this period I had largely found in the enlargement and further deepening of my relations with the circles around me. The flexibility of moving around different friend groups I found particularly enticing, largely due to feeling that I could never be at home within a single and static entity but felt much more at ease in a fluid surrounding. Knowledge and experience was present in lavish abundance all around me and represents the main cause for my curiosity of diversity. Increasing my knowledge by experiencing enlargement and fluidity was thus a natural aspect of my upcoming short trip around Scotland. My experiences of Scotland, or lack thereof, was something that had been bothering me for some time. In my stationary presence during the three years of my secondary school and during term time at University, my endeavours never brought me further than my own back-garden. While this is of course meant metaphorically, it was precisely this lack of experiences in Scotland that had been shaped purely by myself which caused me to devise the plan to travel to the most north-western point of Scotland. In combination with the inner process of analysing some of the accumulated wisdoms of the past months I thus ventured into the direction of Cape Wrath.

Following the walk my shoes had become a wet and muddy mess, which meant the last few 100s of meters were incredibly painful. Every single step I took made my blistered feet scream in agony and plead for rest. I had reached a pain-induced trance once reaching the tarmac road, and only with my seemingly never-ending luck did I manage to avoid a night spent with burning feet in a claustrophobic tent. An older couple that I had conversed with briefly while passing on the path saw me in my happy but painful state and allowed me to stay in their lake house. An hours drive south, a warm bath, a filling dinner and engaging conversation with the couple was followed with falling asleep in a heavenly soft bed.