" I skirted Falkirk and followed some tiny lanes which climbed away from the Union Canal. When I was plotting the route, these banks were lost in the noise created by the Lammermuirs and the Pennines, but what a bastard that bit was."
Ooops. That area is known as the "Bathgate Alps"...
(Pedantic moment - it is Grangemouth, not "Grangetown".)
I enjoyed that, thank you.