A year at Invergarry Lodge
It's been a year since Jenny and I quit our office jobs and took over at Invergarry Lodge and what a great year it's been.
We've made some great friends in and around the village and met lots of interesting guests too: from the young guy running 30 Munros in 24 hours and the French ladies who managed to crash their car on our drive, to one of the hill walkers we liked so much we wanted him to adopt us (but were too scared to ask!).
We've been busy making changes to the hostel as well, loads of modernisation and decoration, bathroom refurbishments plus adding lots of new sofas and making everything nice and comfortable. Outside the hostel just as much work has been going on, we have been busy planting and growing our own fruit and vegetables and building a chicken house for the new Invergarry Lodge brood, and then having to build some fencing to keep the chickens off the new veggies.
It's not all been work, work, work though, we've managed to find a few days off as well. We've been rafting on the local river, bagged a few Munros, done plenty of rock climbing and mountain biking, went skiing and even squeezed in some orienteering. We got really into foraging for berries and mushrooms in the forest during the summer and autumn and even managed to win the Halloween pumpkin carving competition in the local pub!
Anyway, we'd just like to say thanks to everyone who came through our doors and made our first year a really enjoyable one and look forward to seeing you in our second year!
Matt and Jenny
Invergarry Lodge
We've made some great friends in and around the village and met lots of interesting guests too: from the young guy running 30 Munros in 24 hours and the French ladies who managed to crash their car on our drive, to one of the hill walkers we liked so much we wanted him to adopt us (but were too scared to ask!).
We've been busy making changes to the hostel as well, loads of modernisation and decoration, bathroom refurbishments plus adding lots of new sofas and making everything nice and comfortable. Outside the hostel just as much work has been going on, we have been busy planting and growing our own fruit and vegetables and building a chicken house for the new Invergarry Lodge brood, and then having to build some fencing to keep the chickens off the new veggies.
It's not all been work, work, work though, we've managed to find a few days off as well. We've been rafting on the local river, bagged a few Munros, done plenty of rock climbing and mountain biking, went skiing and even squeezed in some orienteering. We got really into foraging for berries and mushrooms in the forest during the summer and autumn and even managed to win the Halloween pumpkin carving competition in the local pub!
Anyway, we'd just like to say thanks to everyone who came through our doors and made our first year a really enjoyable one and look forward to seeing you in our second year!
Matt and Jenny
Invergarry Lodge
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