Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 place to sleep meant finding a public house along the road, which could range from a pleasant inn by English standards, to a dirty and smoky peasants hut with no glass windows nor chimney and a dirt floor. More than once the Wordsworths were refused a room for the night [ such as the Arrochar Hotel] after dark in the rain with miles to the next town; however this was contrasted by the kindness and generosity of others, the MacFarlane's at Loch Katrine.[7] Food in 19th century Scotland along the road ranged from boiled fowl and egg on the high
Bothy is a traditional song recorded by the Bothy Band in 1976. "Bothy Culture" is the second studio album by Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released in 1998. Marion Zimmer Bradley used bothies as a pattern for shelters at Hellers mountains in her Darkover novels. The narrator's bothy is the setting for much of the action in the 1996 suspense novel "To the Hilt" by Dick Francis. A bothy is featured in the 2013 film "Under the Skin". "The Key-Stone of the Bridge", a novel by Craig Meggy, is part homage to Robert Burns, set in Ben Alder