"If it's not Scottish, it's crap." - Mike Meyers in "So, I Married an Axe Murderer."
I spent the holiday weekend in Scotland with some friends from London. We started with a planes, trains and automobiles type of excursion with a cancelled train, a substitute train, a hour and a half trip on a carriage (bus) and another train ride into Glasgow (about 3 hours later). It was a heck of trip.
We stayed in a Hostel (my first) in Glasgow after a lovely dinner and drinks then woke up early for a trip up to the Scottish Highlands where we stayed in a haunted castle. It was VERY cool. The castle was over 900 years old and had a spectacular view of the North Sea. We were in a small town about 15 minutes from Inverness called Dingley. On the road trip up, we stopped at the Glenlivet Distillery for a tour. Our tour guide was a very Scottish man named Ewan. He was an elderly gentleman with the bulbous nose and ruddy cheeks. It seemed he had enjoyed several whisky's over his lifetime. He was great!
The next day we headed down to Loch Ness where we stopped at the Urquhart Castle. We headed on towards several other Lochs where we stopped and enjoyed the views and the Eilean Donan Castle for a quick tour. It was great and we were on the East Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. A pretty cool sight for the American in the bunch. I was truly in awe of the distance travelled over the last several months.
Last night we stayed in a lovely B&B in a little fishing village called "Fort William". We saw a local in full Scottish kilt and enjoyed traditional Scottish music played on the accordian during dinner. A very cool experience.
Today included a road trip back to Glasgow to catch the train. We passed more Sheep, Lamb, and "hairy" cows along the way. I guess I was really expecting lush green rolling pastures and instead saw 3000 feet high "mountains" with loads of moss and brown ground cover. I'm including a couple pics if I can get them successfully load.
OK, I am tired and need to crash to gear up for the work week. Later.
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