Kiloran Guest House Inverness

... of-nowhere-awesome. I passed through Lecht ski resort - super high up, yet no snow at the moment - and weird to see ski lifts sans snow. Completely deserted again - when I got out of the car there was a lifetime worth of silence... and a rock that summed it all with ...

... in our ears. Where was the camera when you needed it (yes, in my rucksack!). The jet was gone within seconds and I had no time at all to get the camera out of my bag.

We got back to the hostel, get showered (separately!) and then headed out to the local fish and chip shop for dinner and then to the pub next door to the hostel for a pint!

Can't get internet here tonight so I will have to upload some pictures later.

Today was a bit of a washout, in two ways actually. First, I didn't get to bed until 05:45 as I was up in the bar drinking until very late (or early, you could say). Secondly, I was woken up to a wet foot as water was pouring through the ceiling through the smoke detector and onto the end of my bed. I quickly got dressed and went down to reception and they found that someone upstairs had left a tap running and the plug in...whoops!

Aviemore, Scotland, United Kingdom peterward

... up to the room and bagged the double bed and then went into town for a walk around. Took a few pictures of Loch Ness and some of the town. Not much going on here, just a few shops for the tourists. Back to the hostel for a drink and to use the PC's so that I can upload some photos (which you may have noticed already!). Not sure what to do tomorrow???

Today is time to get back on track, I am in East Leake and I need
to get back to Scotland. Luckily Daniel doesn't wake me up too early
and although I don't set off as early as I need to, I get a good nights
sleep.
I
get my gear swapped from the Land Rover and into the BMW and get set
off at around 10:30 ...

... legs and a good time was had by all. We then moved on back to Edinburgh but Dave being Dave we had to stop every km so he could take a photo, in the end it was "Dave if we stop anymore we won't get back to Edinburgh until Christmas!" so the solution. We drove with Dave sticking his head out the sunroof taking photos. We did stop a few time whilst driving through the mighty Scottish highlands and glens, the weather was perfect for it. It was just that sort of ...

... When King Robert died - he instructed that his heart was to be removed from his body and taken on the holy crusades in the following battle. This was done - the man charged with taking the heart fell on the battlefield holding Bruce's heart. It is said that this man - threw the box contained Bruce's heart forward on the battlefield and said the words, 'go forward my Braveheart', or similar. Hence the term Braveheart. We crossed the river Teith on our ...

... vertical angle ?? We don't know how they managed it as it was on a straight road. It happended hours before we got there and police were there directing everyone. I haven't managed to find it on any news sites so I am assuming/hoping that no one was seriously hurt. It took us another hour or so to get back into Edinburgh after that. Now we are back home and don't want to have to go back to work tomorrow as we would prefer to sleep in but we enjoyed our time in Inverness.

Hello to all. Just catching up where we left off last time :-) Thursday 10th May - We set off this morning for what we expected to be a quick drive up to the highlands to view some castles and the grand Loch Ness. We checked out Cragg Millar Castle just before leaving Edinburgh and were already running late! We scooted up the motorway, passed Stirling castle and headed up Perthshire way. We took a detour off the main road to find some castles, and though we were unsuccessful in ...

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< br>A long day of driving beckoned, which we felt was necessary in order to get some appreciation of the rugged Scottish landscape. After scraping the ice off the car’s windscreen we crossed the Firth of Forth parallel to the iconic Forth Rail Bridge and across to St Andrews. Though we were again under a clear blue sky the idea of a round of golf at the Old Course didn’t seem ...