Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl
Even with a broken bottom bracket, cycling under your own steam beats being carried in a car any day of the week.... ;)
The Lochliboside Hills and the Ferenese Hills up behind Glasgow (particularly Barrhead and Paisley, up behind the braes of Glennifer) is mostly rolling farmland but there are a number of spaces that have been left to wild out, let's say. Once you get up behind the braes avoiding all the main roads quite easily, it is a remarkably quiet and inspiriting place... in all kinds of weather. The coagulation and noise that we had been so used to down there in the city disappears entirely to leave you more open to a meditative-spacing out state...
A snow-capped Mistylaw in the distance, part of the Inverclyde-Muirshiel range.
Lochwinnoch in the foothills, looking over Howwood Fishery...
This particular road is one of the quietest I have ever cycled. It's a sort of link road between upper Howwood and the farms up and around Walls Hill Fort. Simply being on it, and especially with the primordial aspect afforded by WHF and the distant snow-capped peaks, is a magical experience. And all this not half an hour from Glasgow by train + bicycle.
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