{"id":12277,"date":"2026-08-11T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s691948366.onlinehome.us\/demo\/cogitations\/?page_id=12277"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:11:39","slug":"barvas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/s691948366.onlinehome.us\/demo\/cogitations\/britain\/lochailort-to-inverness\/barvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Barvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On Lewis we have a great rental
Where the hills are rolling and gentle
But we start where we finished
So our ride\u2019s not diminished
A regime that is driving us mental.<\/p>

At Aird Asaig we start a long climb
The sun on the mountains sublime
We keep turning the cogs
Past the lakes and the bogs
And wish it\u2019s like this all the time.<\/p>

The road opens onto a plateau
So we stop to take a quick photo
There, riding a thermal
On instincts eternal
An eagle seeks prey-on-the-go.<\/p>

As we near halfway on our course
I am struck by the scent of the gorse
A deep yellow flower
Accounts for the power
Of a fragrance with no remorse.<\/p><\/div>

We turn to the left for Callanish
And I decide to practise my Spanish
\u201cYo tengo un abrigo
Y tambi\u00e9n un amigo\u201d
The only words I have that don\u2019t vanish.<\/p>

More than five thousand years ago
Came Callanish Standing Stones
How did a primate
Survive in this climate?
No gortex, no electric, no phones!<\/p>

Another day in which we could revel
And I\u2019m telling you this on the level
We never came near
To needing wet-weather gear
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