Inversnaid Hotel
Travel Blogs from Inversnaid
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... like me getting out of the UK!
That is apart from a bunch of yobbos whose children looked no older than five who were guzzling copious amounts of Coke and massive bags of Haribo Starmix. I sincerely did not want to be stuck next to them, especially admist the throes of their inevitable catastrophic sugar crash. Thankfully, it turned out I'd booked a really good seat in a two seater far away from the plebs...that is until an air hostess with an ...
Walk the Loch
... hundred feet through stands of native oak and birch and non-native spruce, fir, and larch with understory of holly and rhododendrons (which they're trying to get rid of because it's non-native.) We recognize many plants from our Northwest landscape and gardens--especially delightful pale primroses growing freely, as well as delicate wild violets and tiny white shamrocks. Water, cascading from the ...
Scotland, Amazing Race Style
... countryside and pleasant highway drive would have been just that, pleaseant, but my memory of Scotland that day is too clouded by tension for it to be a joyful one.
We finally got to the airport around 9 pm and dropped off our car. There was nowhere to check in, the desks closed and our Flybe flight now long gone. A sign at the desk declared that they would be back at 5:00 am, so having used the house phone to find ourselves a room, ...