Duchally Country Estate Perth

... but one side has nothing - it's just bare and exposing a monstrous building left from the time when the area mined coal from under the sea. I ask a guy sat next to me what the building is used for now and he tells me that it's going to be dismantled but requires a lot of money and asbestos specialists to take it down. The coastline will look ...

Hi Folks,
We are back in Edinburgh after spending a week in Lanzarote! Sun sun sun. Aaron and I are off to a Scottish wedding tonight then a quick 6 days before we set off on our big South America Trip.

Update you more once we arrive in Lima.

Adios

... crawl we'll see!


Heading back to London on the overnight bus sunday night then straight to Amsterdam! Jake wants to do Amsterdam brussels Paris and Spain and sounds good to me and if we can hopefully slot in Rome but we'll see bout the money!

anyway gotta plan it now hope all is well and if we have some bad luck and we are seeing u soon we wont of wasted our time over here!

Catch




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Phew! Scotland is finished! Just sitting at an internet cafe, trying to waste some time and catch up on bits and pieces. Sadly the computer isn't accepting my photo files - i will try to upload them asap!

So this morning we said goodbye to Oban and got back on the road. Our first stop (after coffee and bacon butties!) was Glencoe, one of the most stunning stretches of scenery in Scotland. It's known as the valley of the ...

Today, I was planning to go to the youth hostel at the castle, but the Land Rover had other plans!!!

Oh dear, game over! I popped out to start the Land Rover this morning at around 9am and the engine was smoking like a trooper and sounding a lot worse than it normally does. I called the AA at around 10:00 and they turned up at at around 10:45 from a local garage. He told me that the engine is fairly terminal (piston problem ...

... possible on the rope. At the back, were enormous older men who looked like they could hold the entire team themselves. They worked and strained so hard and had to work in unison pulling on the rope like a rowing team. They even had coaches shouting harsh words to those competitors they thought were not, literally, pulling their weight.
We had a beautiful day to watch the events, too. It was sunny (a rarity in Scotland) until about 4 p.m. when it began to pour ...

... got into it so we just decided to forget about drinking for the night, as there will be plenty more to come, you can be sure. This morning something odd happened: The sun came out! Sun is good. I had almost forgot what it was like to not get rained on. This brings me to today's GROSS OVER GENERALIZATION I now know what it must be like to live in Vancouver. For the 5 days I've been here the sun has shone for about 3 hours. It must make ...

... night we also hit up a couple of pubs (not as nice as Irish pubs and way too expensive). The next day Pat and I got up early and went to The Royal Yacht Britannia, this ship was in service from 1953 to 1997. The yacht was retired from service and brought to Edinburgh. Even though it is called a yacht it should be called a ship. The tour was very good on-board, it was self guided with audio headsets, and was a ...

... built up but lacks the strange-smelling stores selling mass-quantities of stickers and scottish terrier stuffed puppies. After finally catching our bus we were dropped off just outside the road leading to our next accomodation, a castle. Whoever the genious is that converted this old castle to a hostel, well, you're my hero. Of all the hostels we've stayed at, this was by far the cleanest and well kept. The kitchen was massive and ...

We arrived in Perth, Scotland at around 5:30pm and were picked up by my Grandfather's cousin, Lindzee Linsay, and were taken back to her house. Her and her husband, Hendry Linsay, own a bed and breakfast just outside of Perth and we stayed with them throughout time in Southern Scotland. That night we had dinner at their house and slept in the Coachman's Cottage The next few day were spent sight seeing in and around the Perth ...