Burnside Apartment Hotel, 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 ...

... I both really admire their dedication to living their lives the way they want and not giving in to what would be easiest and safest - “The Road MORE Traveled By”. They just got back earlier this year from 15 months' travel including the Middle East, Japan, SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Los Angeles! (I know they felt LA was the pinnacle of the trip.) We met them in Japan, then they visited us in LA, and now we've visited them in Scotland! Three continents (so far...)

... it being cutting'd to death.

The drive took us to Queens View for some nice Scottish Loch landscapes before retuning to Pitlochry

It was starting to get grey and drizzly by the time we got home so we opted to skip the shopping walk, shooping on holidays is not really our thing so it was no great loss and we opted for a bottle of wine an a light meal in little restaurant called Port Na Craig down by the river Tay.

... 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 ...

... train location! Glenfinnan is so small that is a location that you literally drive through not knowing if you passed it or not! As we turned around we spotted a side road and when we went up it we hit a train station that was closed with a small restaurant that was closed as well. There weren't too many signs and we had no idea where the bridge was! Katie mentioned she thought she may had seen a bridge on the way so we decided to head back the way we ...

... I had about 3 hours before catching my MacBackpacker bus to Inverness, so I decided to hit the trails again. This time heading in the opposite direction towards a waterfall known as the Black Sprout. After finding the picturesque little spot, I carried on, only to see funny looking dung on the path, that started to come in large amounts and appeared very fresh., So I slowed my pace and listened very carefully and could hear weird sort of mooing/grunting noises ...