View From a Rock at Corrour
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- A hillside view over what feels like the whole of The Highlands of Scotland, ranging from The Mamores and Ben Nevis to Glencoe and its Pap. There's a lot to be said for sitting on a rock with such a stunning mountainous panorama laid out before you.
And, of course, you don't have to walk to the top of a hill or mountain to get great views. You have my permission to forego that peak and just spend many memorable moments soaking in views from a lower level. As a seat, rocks have a lot going for them.
This modern world is so hectic that we sometimes forget to stand for a while and simply look at our surroundings. We rush to catch the bus or train and we rush to and from work; or we rush to reach the top of the mountain. But, as William Henry Davies said in his wonderful verse, 'Leisure':
'A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.'
Today's hillwalk takes us from Corrour railway station - the highest mainline station in the UK, standing at around 400 metres above sea level - onto the slopes of Beinn a Bhric. As the station at Corrour gradually diminishes in size to a mere dot in a wild rugged wilderness, we are treated to those views.
By a herd of deer we stop for lunch and spend some time just looking at the majestic beauty of this part of Scotland.
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Many thanks. Hard to beat a good seat.
Cheers Ed, I enjoyed your walk in the mountains. A solitude is like medicine for the soul. Thanks for sharing your passion and your joy.
Lynn in Naples. FL 😎
Thanks Lynn. Great weather too, although a little windy.
Cheers Eddie, love your trips, and your wisdom & dry humour. This is what life should be like. Appreciate the good times & be thankful. Keep them coming!
Cheers William.
Aw Ed/Bugsy 😂 what a lovely start to my day. Wonderful stories, beautiful views....and a reminder to just stop and take in our surroundings. Thank you so much for taking me along with you
Thanks Pat. Can't beat a good seat.
@@EdExploresScotland aye a rock with a view or a sheltered place to sit and ponder over a good beer...couldn't be better.
Ahhh.....another enjoyable outing Ed. I like your relaxed manner. You take your time and have gentle conversation with us.
The rolling hills were beautiful and even though you almost got bogged, you had a chuckle about it. I got the vibes as you
sat on that wee seat drinking that beer. I was with you every sip of the way. Keep the videos coming Ed!
Cheers John. It was just a lovely seat.
You make me laugh out loud at times Eddy, you really can be a funny guy in a great way, a natural way. Coming to an understanding with a big spider or feeling responsible for getting a greenfly to lose it's way home is my kind of humour, and also my way of thinking. Another really good verbal wee vid from yourself. I hope you continue to entertain in your unique way mate. All the best, Ronnie.
Thanks Ronnie.
Some great views there. I agree about enjoying the view rather than bagging another Munro. I must try that beer if I can find some. It looked great in the sunlight.👍
A beer and a good seat. Heaven.
Really enjoy all your videos. Your music is wonderful, I enjoy your patter and the beautiful scenery that you lead us to. Thank you
Many thanks Carolyn.
Great video Ed. Enjoyed that.
Great video and views as always Eddie 😎
Thanks David.
Good to see you went back to Corrour and got a great day for it too. Nice shot of Ben Nevis at around 10:58 . Cheers .
Thanks David. Yeh, I kinda reckoned that was Ben Nevis.
A great video Ed, what amazing views and somewhere i definitely want to visit.
Have had to go to hospital as found out ive appendicitis, this video has been a great post surgery watch! cheers again 😊
Thank you. Recover soon.
Another great video, just as i was wondering where you were going to post from next. Loved it
Thank you.
Stunning views, another great video love the spider story and your thoughts.
Many thanks!
Way up there, in the middle of nowhere, is sometimes a great place to be, eh Ed? There is beauty even in the most remote and open places, especially in Scotland. All the best from Canada! - 3rd gen CDN here, bloodlines from the glorious old country you call home.... My 'happy place.' Slàinte Mhath!
Cheers Jim. 👍
Thanks for this video Ed , just what’s needed on a Tuesday night.
Stunning scenery & a wee saunter up a hill. You’re right about just enjoying where you are if it’s got a nice view 👍🏼
Cheers Graham.
Another great video Ed spectacular surroundings passed through on the train from fort william absolutely stunning
Thanks Robert. One day I'll need to take the train all the way to Mallaig, a place I've never been.
Great stuff Ed.
Absolutely wonderful video, Ed. Really enjoyed as ever, so thank you. All the best.
Thank you.
10/10 🌟 your m&s line was hilarious & true. 😅
Thank you.
Great!
Another excellent video thanks Ed.
The weather looked fantastic and the views were stunning. I'm glad you had time to relax on the bench seat and enjoy a pint. You deserved it.
I'd quite happily get the train to Corrour and just spend the whole day on that seat at the station.
Sounds like a special place.
Thanks Ed ... very calming as usual ... always love the pints at the end ... Peter
Cheers Peter.
Good to see you. Your looking well. Ta for the video ❤
Thank you! 🤗
Thanks again Ed
Thanks Roger.
Well done Ed a cracking video with stunning views it’s a great place to explore up there and the train journey up alone is very special and a great way to finish off with a beer down at the brilliant station house must get back David 👍
Cheers David. It's a cracking area, and one of few areas in the country where there is not a far-off drone of vehicles.
Hi Ed, really enjoyed your trip back to Currour and the scenery was outstanding … loved your story about the green flys journey and the angry spider too😂😂. Just back from Altnaharra and weather was sunny and took loads of photos. Scotland is truly fantastic 🏴
Hi Margaret. I've never been to Altnaharra. I'll need to extend my horizons.
Very enjoyable episode as usual ed.thanks from Oz. I agree z demands to be sounded. Best wishes.
Thanks Thomas. 👍
If only there was a Lidl at the top of that hill!
Very good , enjoyed the walk ,view & your company . Ps please watch for ticks ! I was bitten walking in Applecross , ticks are fond of me , wee buggers ! Look forward to your next adventure. Toni
Hi Toni. Yes, ticks can be an issue. Always best to check yourself over when out and about in the great outdoors. Take care.
Very enjoyable Ed... or should I say BugZy 🙂 Hope you got big ZZZds when you got hame. Keep up the great work. Donald
Thanks Donald.
Went for the first time this summer (😆) and loved it . Will definitely go back next summer for a walk round the circle loop then a libration at the end in the pub .
If you was there in the 70s you would see sheep but Christ not one in site
yet there taking all the way from new Zealand unbelievable nothing better than good Old Scottish lamb from these hills
Hey you, great peaceful video, thank you and I think the greenfly like you because of the colour, but how you avoid the midges is beyond me, anyway keep up the great work and I will look for you on the road.🤠
Cheers Edward. I've been midge-free this year.
Back in our time Z was for Zorro.
Beautiful scenery and the chuckles I needed. Strange about spiders I don't like them particularly but have always protected them, I will need to watch out for greenflies now I'm getting older. The arancini would be less dry warmed through and although I've not tried those M&S one's the real thing in Sicily are much larger and to die for. In Italian ci is normally pronounced ch so thay are Aran-chini. All the best!
Thanks Michael. I strongly suspect spiders are more intelligent than we could ever imagine.
My favourite place to start walks. Also 5 Bothies in walking distance. Two different ways up, or up the left and foot steps down the right vice versa. Get a walking Pole or two. The man who wanted a station paid for it.
I'll definitely be back when the weather's better.
I was laughing out loud at your story about the greenfly. Maybe because you wear green / outdoor clothing, it felt at home there. Beautiful views Ed.
Cheers Eilean. I am the Greenfly Whisperer!
Culzean, Dalziel, Menzies and various others all have the letter "Z" for consistent, factual, historically recorded reasons. Scots orthography used to have a letter which is not in modern standard English - Yogh or Ȝ . When printing was first introduced this letter was not available so early typesetters in Scotland used the letter Z instead. Hence why it appears in various words words, names and places in Scotland. It is a totally different letter to "Z" and this is why it is not pronounced as such..
Thanks Gary. Very interesting.
Rather like the Old English "thorn" simplified as ye, as in Ye Olde Shoppe, and pronounced the or thee. It still doesn't explain how Milngavie is pronounced Mil-guy.
Hi Ed, you're the man who's never without map, surely the map would have told you where Ben Nevis was. As for going halfway up a hill, I've done that a couple of times, I don't feel the need to get to the top.
Yes, that's a point. It's such a higgledy-piggledy mass of mountains that it's hard to know what's what. I did have a compass in my rucksack and, just as you say, that with the map should have helped. I strongly suspect the footage after my wondering is in fact of Ben Nevis.
Oh I knew somebody would pipe up about Dalziel. The silent Z is a Scottish phenomenon, in the earliest Scottish annuls it's recorded as a number 3, hence has no definitive pronunciation. But if Boab fae Motherwell or whatever says it's Dalziel, it's Dalziel.
Cheers Paul. You'd think folk would see other comments pointing out the pronunciation error. But no, I had what seemed like everyone in Motherwell, and their auntie, and everyone who used to stay in Motherwell, put me right. It's hardly the most important aspect of the video.
When I was there, the English female train guard came on the blower and announced 'We are approaching 'Cor-our', because as she said, many people get that wrong' and I think that may be the correct pronounciation. Who am I to argue. If you really like the wilderness, it doesn't get better than cor-our. It has two claims to fame. #1 Highest railway station in the UK, and #2 The Caledonian Sleeper stops there. Exactly why, I don't have a scooby-doo'.
Yes, i thought it was weird. I went to school near Motherwell, Dalziel is silent z, also a surname, silent Z. Its always boggy up there.
A signalman at Corrour. Now that would have been a job. Shades of the Steptoe and Son episode where Albert Steptoe (Wilfred Brambell) is asked what his regular job is at the unemployment office. "Coronation Programme Seller", he replies.
The 'z' in Menzies was not originally a 'z' at all but a letter called 'yogh' in the old Scots and Middle English alphabets, written 'ȝ' but pronounced like a 'y'.
Pies next time again lol
Probably.
Ed, hi there... The use of Z in some words are a legacy of words that came from other languages or from letters that were in the English language but are no longer in the modern alphabet. I'm no expert, but I believe how these are pronounced are close to, or the same as they were in the source language or what the now missing letter sounded like.
Menzies is now WH Smith! Cor oor will never be cou..r our
Great..views and a good rest, but 3.6 percent you must have paid 6 or 7 quid,
but a semi local brewery needs support.
Atb
I was glad of the low strength. Last thing you need when puggled and dehydrated is strong beer.
@@EdExploresScotland Yes I had that on my mind.
Atb
Would rather ignore the Russian Z
The Pied Flyper. 👀
I'll see myself out.
@@slydermartin6008 ?