Autumn Road Trip Drive Through Glen Etive Scottish Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a mainy cloudy road trip drive, with Scottish music, on a narrow single track through Glen Etive on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands. At the north end of Glen Etive lie the two mountains known as the Herdsmen of Etive, Buachaille Etive Mòr and Buachaille Etive Beag. Other peaks accessible from the Glen include Ben Starav, located near the head of Loch Etive, and Beinn Fhionnlaidh on the northern side of the glen. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands. Buachaille Etive Mòr appears in the films Braveheart and Skyfall. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Deirdre and her love Naoise founded Glen Etive after fleeing Ulster. The Fachen is also known as the Dwarf of Glen Etive. The name Etive is believed to mean " little ugly one " from the Gaelic goddess. Gregor McGregor was born in Glen Etive in 1908. Dorothy Wordsworth tells how from Kingshouse Hotel she and her brother 'often looked out of the window towards a huge pyramidal mountain called Buachaille Etive Mòr.

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