After 20 years living abroad, I finally came home to Scotland and hiked the West Highland Way – it was worth the wait

Camping in Glencoe.

I first heard about the West Highland Way, Scotland’s first official long distance hiking route, in the mid 1990s, but it took me nearly 30 years to walk it.

Growing up in Glasgow, I started doing lots of hillwalking around Loch Lomond and the Trossachs as a teenager in preparation for an Outward Bound trek across Lapland.