Laichmoray Hotel Elgin

... drove all over the Caringorm Mountains today and I found some beautiful poisonous mushrooms which I have added photo's of.

Tomorrow we move on to Isle of Sky, supposedly one of the most beautiful places in Scotland. It will be a long drive but we should see many great things. Our driver is spoiling us and has been wonderful and it just could not have been a better trip for us. The lodgings have been luxurious and the food great.

... and of course the gift shop! I am finding many presents to bring home-just hope the suitcase will hold it and those TShirts I'm getting rid of help the weight. Glad I brought the little pod case that Karen loaned me and am sure we will use it.

Saw some lovely views of which I am attaching some photo's. It rained during the night and in some locations ...

... having the vision a head of time!

We passed through Blairgowery a town where my Great Great and Great Great Great Grandfathers were born. We stopped at many churches and were unsuccessfully in finding out further info, however we were invited in by some locals and treated royally, offered tea and asked to take a seat. Quite nice. In the process we ...

Rothes is the little Scottish village where the Glen Grant Whiskey Distillery is located. It is part of the Speyside Whisky Trail, where the largest concentration of Scotch whisky distilleries is located in Scotland. This large valley is popular among distillers because this is where most of the barley is grown for the distillation process.

The distillery has a nice garden and a gift shop.

... to the "Duff House" to take a photo and backing back down the driveway really quickly, it was getting late & we pulled up on this soccer field by the water & hid behind the soccer hall and parked their for the night, it was even a better view than the caravan park across the road - and it was free!
We are having trouble downloading our photos onto the external harddrive so hopefully some photos will appear shortly.

... shoulder. I bought two bottles at the gift shop. The other night I had done a pretty basic search about getting it delivered to the us at some point. If you go to the monkey shoulder website, they say they can't ship it. But then I found a place called The Whisky Shop and I put in my country and all that jazz and it went through. So the moral of the story is, do you research kids! The distillery can't ship to the US ...

... us to the other bank so across we went over the bridge. Well we stumbled on this restaurant which was quite large and the price was cheap but it was dead. Anyway being a bit skint we decided that it looked alright and decided to pull up a table. Dave noticed that there was a lovely blond lady sitting by herself and next thing we know there were 4. Well Jenny ended up being from Finland so next thing ya know I'm saying the one thing I know in Finnish "how are you ...

... communication cleverness, it made me very jealous! One morning Nate and Roxy formed a deadly double team to wake us up, i'm not sure what we did to offend them but they got us good. First Nate busted the bedroom door down (he opened the door and then pushed it open hard into the wall) startling us awake and then Roxy marched in and then jumped between us in bed putting her head on the pillows! Being used to Crumbs (our 5kg ...

... I always have in my blogs. I feel 'depression', is an over-used word by those who linger over things too much, are too emotionally stunted to describe their feelings and too unwilling to admit to their own errors. Many people who use the word are merely looking for sympathy to equate their general feelings of boredom and mild anxiety to those with real hardships and 'issues'. Historically, I'm guilty of lingering over things too much, of 'thinking' too ...

Today was our third vocational day. I spent a quiet morning with Bill Duncan at Moray College/University of Highlands & Islands talking about various aspects of Facilities Management. Rachel spent the day with the local police force; Tami at the local hospital; and Heather spent the day with many different local social welfare and ...