The Guardian's 22 Best Travel Discoveries of 2022

When I read about the 54-mile Glasgow-to-Edinburgh canoe trail, I immediately asked a friend from Colorado to kayak it with me. Friends in the US thought this sounded epic – you cannot paddle or hike so easily from city to city there – but a few UK pals scoffed. Why would you do this when the Great Glen and Loch Ness are just a little further north?

But we weren’t after wilderness. We just wanted to have a good time, or at least a good story. We booked beds in Glasgow, Kirkintilloch, Falkirk, Linlithgow and Edinburgh, stuffed foldable Oru kayaks into special backpacks, and took the train north.… We not-so-secretly hoped for a disaster of epic proportions, perhaps a capsize, miserable weather and a bitter row – all good material for the pub.

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