November 2019 - Day 17

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!

May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

There's a little one on the local hill, too - a route into Edinburgh from the days when you kept to higher ground or sank into the bog - but that one is *The* Rest and Be Thankful, as seen on the news!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ours is at the top of Slieu Lewaigue - which is the long hard climb from Ramsey on the main Douglas road - and there used to be a pub at the top called Rest and be Thankful - but as no-one either walks themselves or their cart horses up any more it is now a private house, but has retained the name.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

The Argyll one seems to have been named by the soldiers who built the 18th century military road, although it must have had an earlier Gaelic name, because it's one of the very few ways through the hills into Argyll.

These days it's mostly famous for falling down - every so often the road is closed because of a landslide, and most of the rest of the time one lane of it is closed for anti-landslide works!

Pictures of the marker stone and other things at https://ingreatwaters.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/throwback-the-rest-and-be-thankful/ if you are interested :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that was interesting to read. I can see why they might get landslips on the new road - and I really like the idea of the 'modern' replacement stone!