Had an hour to spare yesterday in Inverness so went in to my favourite shop (which is actually a church!) Leakey's 2nd hand bookshop. There amidst the thousands of books I found a book published in the 1920's called 'Glen Albyn Tales and Truths of the Central Highlands' and what a wonderful little book it is. Written by the monks at Fort Augustus Abbey, there are some wonderful stories of the Loch Ness area. My favoutrite so far is of a character called Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, a larger than life character nicknamed the 'Lion Hunter' who lived around the 1850's in Fort Augustus. He would greet what would have been at the time the first 'tourists' to Loch Ness, attired in some 'grotesque' costume, and, preceded by a magnificent goat! I wonder what visitors today would think of being welcomed to Loch Ness in this fashion?!!