Loch Achray Hotel
Travel Blogs from Aberfoyle
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
So we're at the stage of planning everything. We know the basic route we want to go on, first Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands for a while as mark is heading out to work there for a bit then we can head to South America to travel around until the money runs out. Now we need to get all the details sorted but its difficult to know how much to plan because you don't want to be stuck ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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The beauty of Aberfoyle
... heart of an area known as the Trossachs. Lots of hills and lochs and incredible beauty.
We arrived in the small town of Aberfoyle and it was amazing to see the incredible scenery that surrounded us. It was a small town with one main street with quaint shops. Surrounding this was some of the most striking scenery we had come across so far. We were located in a little valley surrounded by fields, a small river and peace.
Arriving at the bed and breakfast we had the ...
From the city to the serene
... the alpha and we headed back in the right direction. A detour was in order to a woollen outlet. This sort of detour sends certain members of our contingent wild, they have a wool fetish. Several products were purchased, including some cashmere jumpers and there were smiles all around. There appears to be little concern for excess luggage at this point in time, there is always Royal Mail if necessary!
Our next stop was ...