Friday 9th August 2024

Maragowan Club Campsite was the third site we visited in the van, back in mid August 2022, this weekend was exactly two years since our last trip.

We have memories of a beautifully warm weekend in Killin, and while we haven’t raced back there, we had fond memories of our weekend there.

We set off on Friday evening, and the roads were busy and there were several accidents en-route to the site, we took the M80, M9 route then onto the A84, which becomes the A85.

At one point we had a front-row position for a car smash recovery, it was quite interesting seeing the low-loader slide down to the road level, and drag the car up the ramp onto the back then slide back onto the rear of the truck.

Very efficient, and we were on our way again.

The A84 is really nice along the side of Loch Lubnaig, and the Trossach ahead, then onto the A85 where the Glen Ogle Viaduct is one of the highlights.

It’s a nice drive, and it was intermittently raining and high winds, which on some of the route makes for interesting driving.

In 2022, the site was full, and there were only 2 or 3 free pitches when we arrived, this time, we had a great choice of pitches, the site wasn’t particularly busy, so we pitched up on 63.

We had a quick dinner of pasta and garlic bread, and a wee glass of wine.

Again, last time we were here it was warm and sunny, and we sat outside with pizza and wine ‘til the sun set, not a chance of that this time, it was raining and windy and blowing through regularly.

We caught up on some youtube, and an episode of Monk, and made up the bed and passed out.