Hay's Way day two - Leaving Ballater to head along the Deeside way - video Dailymotion

Leaving Ballater to head along the Deeside way

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00:00 [Music]

00:08 Morning, so that's me outside Ballaster Hostel.

00:12 I'm just about to leave and head along the Deeside Way further east.

00:18 I'm pretty tired this morning. It's the first morning I've woken up so far.

00:23 I think we're only on day three where I have felt pretty knackered.

00:28 I'm just adjusting to the change, to meeting people, to walking, carrying a lot of stuff.

00:35 I just from sort of other solo trips and hikes, day three is actually usually the hardest, maybe mentally perhaps.

00:47 Having said that, I haven't done anything like what I'm doing at the moment, so we shall see.

00:52 Maybe there are, there will be, there will be harder days to come.

00:55 But really comfortable sleep at the Ballaster Hostel.

00:59 I met two workmen from Glasgow who were staying here as well.

01:05 They were really, really going, hitting it hard with the Budweiser cans and offered me one and some Chinese.

01:14 But I thought I'd actually venture out and I went to the fish shop, which is also owned by the Fife Arms.

01:24 So that was interesting. It's been a pretty quiet, quiet visit in Ballaster.

01:28 I'm going to crack on though, because I've got about 15 kilometres to walk today, I reckon.

01:49 To the left of the pavement, turn the corner, where you're heading up the village, you'll see the station with the tourist information.

01:59 So if you turn your head, you'll see a sweetie shop.

02:02 In between the station, which is a wee restaurant, which is part of the station, sweetie shop and there's an opening there.

02:11 Go down the steps, turn right and that's you on the Deeside Way.

02:15 You go so far, then you have to cross a road a wee slight to that direction and you'll see the path again and you're off and running.

02:41 Okay, so slightly confusing start on leaving Ballaster.

02:46 I was told go past the sweet shop, which is just there and then you'll come across the path.

02:54 So we're either looking at that or the kind of driveway.

03:01 My thoughts are probably this, but yeah, interesting. There's no signs at all.

03:09 So probably a lot of people get lost wandering around Ballaster.

03:13 Okay, so my instinct was wrong.

03:16 It looks like I'm just walking.

03:18 Yeah, just walking into basically someone's backyard.

03:26 So I'm going to turn around and I'm going to go down the other way to see if that's the right path.

03:33 I'm pretty delayed, but that's okay.

03:39 Got a lot of time, so we're all good.

03:43 It's great to know I can trust my instincts.

03:47 [Music]