I was recently up in a beautiful part of Scotland on a commercial shoot at a remote holiday cottage in a place known as Ardechive.  The cottage is directly opposite Loch Arkaig and along a 15 mile single track road which leads into the mountains.  The commercial aspect of the shoot was to take photographs of the property and surrounding areas to update the Owners website which you can find at http://www.ardechive-locharkaig.co.uk.  Now at this point I have to confess we did not get the job finished and will be going back in the Spring to complete the assignment.  On the day we arrived the Loch had risen so high it had flooded the road into the Glen up to 2′ feet of water.  Having travelled so far we decided to go for it and breathed in deeply as we travelled through with a bow wave that was as high as the windows on the car.  Overnight the rain continued and so for the following two days we could not get out.  Then after one days break the Weather Bomb hit the Glen with winds up to 165mph. The trees were snapping like twigs and the electric went off and remained off for four days leaving us with no hot water or heat other than the log fire in the lounge.  Having survived that we then had one day of power before the next storm hit. The power went off again and was due to stay off for several days so we decided enough was enough and headed home.  However you must not let this put you off taking a holiday there as the cottage is fantastic and the countryside stunning.

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