Scotland

Here's a Few Pictures We Took
Running Down the Road!

We flew in a Delta 777 to Manchester, England

Then went by train..

Across the English Countryside...

To Edinburgh, Scotland...

Where we stayed in the Thistle Hotel the first night.

Next morning the Prestige Bus picked us up at the Thistle and we started our tour north out of Edinburgh

Then Edradour was next

Our first stop Single Malt Whisky!! Yep, this must be Scotland!!

Just up the road was Pitlochry where we had lunch.
We enjoyed the village
And shopped...
My favorite place was The Whisky Shop. We met two very nice ladies. www.whiskyshop.com

Next we drove up A9 to Culloden.

Inverness

The Moray Firth led the way from Culloden
to Inverness and our north Scotland home on the road. The Thistle Hotel again.

Inverness means beginning of the River Ness.
There were some nice views along the River Ness...

Some interesting buildings and architecture
A delicious and fast meal at a nice pub...

Have you seen my sea gull? I think the dog has it figured out.

The River Ness runs south becoming Loch Ness,
where we would later be looking for the MONSTER!

Rolm Mills was the next stop on our tour...
We learned about making tartans...
some of the history of the tartans...
and some information about the clans themselves...
There was also a large gift shop.

Then off to Loch Ness.

The countryside south of Inverness was a pastoral scene complete with conifers and sheep, and houses and farms and hillsides along the river until the river broadened
and we glimpsed the loch itself...
The loch was beautiful and blue
with striations from light to dark to almost black
and streaks that could be almost anything
and then we saw a cloud hovering on the loch and something inside the cloud deserving a closer look It was a castle!