Last Wednesday, just across the river from the Balloch House inn, two pleasure cruisers were setting off to tour Loch Lomond. Just behind them, at a respectful distance, a sleek James Bond speedboat murmured under its breath as it waited for the narrow channel to clear. In the little patch of grass and woodland on the opposite bank, families had gathered, unsure when the sun would next visit this place. Few of them would have been aware they were sitting on Scotland’s most controversial and intensely-disputed patch of land.
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