Oak Tree Inn - Loch Lomond

As a family we all travelled up to Glasgow as Megan finished her third year of uni. We had one night in Glasgow and then went over to Loch Lomond. We stayed in the Loch Lomond Waterfront lodges in Balmaha which were fab. Our lodge looked straight onto the loch with no obstructions and we even had a hot tub (which we went in despite the less than ideal midges).

Loch Lomond is stunning. It is the start of the West Highland walk which Meg and dad were planning to do whilst Sian, Lee, mum and I took a more leisurely pace to the break. We stayed in Balmaha which is busy in high season with tourists and walkers but when we went at the start of June it was peaceful and picturesque. With just one pub and one shop it is pretty much you and nature.

On our last night there we went to the one pub there called the Oak Tree Inn which is a 5 minute walk from the lodges. It looks like a newly done pub from the outside but when you enter there is an immediate warm welcoming feeling of an old traditional pub with beams and slate. The restaurant is in the new extension but it certainly doesn't feel like that, in fact it feels like a little grotto. Covered in fairy lights, cups and saucers hanging from the ceiling and walls it feels like a magical grotto....which obviously made my mum very excitable.

I ordered the burger...obviously, but that was after having a huge plate of smoked salmon! Alongside this I had some of their homemade pear cider which tasted just like fruit juice. The burger was what tasted like 100% meat. Very solid in texture but pure in taste. It came with a lovely crisp onion ring and a huge bowl of chips. A simple burger but done well.