Knockendarroch House Pitlochry

... worthwhile (and hopefully worth the money, i'll see when I work out how much I've spent). I obviously won't be uploading the 4000 photo's I took but anyone is welcome to see them, they need only ask; and set aside around 5 hrs to go through them. This is Mike's log.......signing out.

A surprise - wasn't expecting to see this type of detail in a non-fancy church. Looks like a farmhouse on the outside, but on the inside a very detailed painted ceiling.

I would guess that not too many people actually make it out to this site.

... up on the A9 we went past the entry to the Monarch of the Glen – apparently the royals turned down this house and took up Balmoral residence so this was made available for the popular tv show. Going through the countryside full of drenched highland cattle, black faced sheep and ram and loads of Heather we later went through Glen Gloy which is meant to be known as the 'Great Glen'. Further on we went past the Well of the Seven ...

After a fantastic 13hour sleep we got up and ready for a full on day of adventure. First up was the local township – Dunkeld. We visited Dunkeld Cathedral which half is used for church services and the back half were in ruins and inside held headstones. Beautiful architecture throughout and we were able to walk through the church to a mini museum which went into more history on the ...

... felt watching the Highland Games was the sense of tradition and history. Even though we all enjoy our modern world today with iPhones, internet,
television, cars, etc it's a great feeling to know that something has been going on more or less the same for a couple hundred years. Especially watching the bagpipers and drum majors in their incredibly beautiful outfits doing their well-practiced routines, I got the feeling of those centuries of history being passed down. It ...

... around the corner came some rafters so we spent a couple of entertaining minutes listening to people scream themselves silly going over the rapids.

Ms Garmin had recovered her composure by now (it is a she as the voice cajoling you this way and that is an Aussie lady.) so It was onwards to ye 5000 yeard olde Yew Tree, the oldest tree in Europe. For those of yew (sorry I couldn't help myself) who are fans of Robin Hood (the real one I ...

... there because the original was taken by Queen Elizabeth the First to Westminster about 700 years ago.
For morning tea of course I had a scone. I also beat Danny into the centre of the maze - my thrill for the day.
Next we met up with Dorothy's daughter Amanda at the Crieff Visitors Centre where there is a glass-blowing workshop. The heat those blokes (and sheilas) have to work in is incredible. They get globs of molten glass on the end of lo-o-o-ong poles and ...

... of those lovely little villages with a winding main street lined with grey stone buildings and, at this time of year, flowers in window boxes. The village's “High Street” (English for “Main shopping/business street”) winds down a gentle slope and you can see glimpses of gentle hills patchworked with fields and hedges between the buildings. In some directions the hills are bigger and balder – the foothills of the ...

... a pound in for a cents and wow sense is what you lose when u get stuck into this stuff believe me. they then took me on a rather long walk around this fantastic garden ihad free run of it playing with the ducks and stuff but sheesh need to catch my breath half way around then i decided i needed to look for my nuts so off i set searching high and low lifting my tail and legs and finally i found them whoo and what a big pair of nust they were, I had to show ...

... than directly after. I have only been here four weeks so I can only imagine what else will happen over the next three! On a better story people can tip here very well. All you have to do is be polite and talk to them for a couple of minutes. I spoke to fellow Canadians who were from Edmonton on the same day as the attempted matchmaker story. They were very nice and as they were leaving I wished them happy travels. About ten minutes later ...