Loch Achray Hotel Aberfoyle

... we were drinking our coffee we decided to do a quick sketch of the train station. As we were sitting there a nice older man in a kilt caught a glance of what we were doing and invited himself over. He pulled up a chair and started to explain to us that he used to teach architectural drawing classes and now is a professional artist who gives presentations on his work. He asked to take a look of each of our sketchbooks and gave ...

... Apart from that can recommend Relais FRANCESCA in Piano di Sorrento.A super small hotel with parking -important in that area!Also close to train station for Sorrento,Pompeiietc.
P.S.DON'T plan to eat outside Pompeii site-take something with you or use cafe inside.
Cheers
John

... stopped at a vet clinic (yes a vet clinic) and asked how to get to the road we needed to get to. The vet couldnt stop laughing at the fact that we sincerely thought we were in Glasgow. Oh no, we were actually in RENFREW!! A comparing factor would be St. Thomas to Toronto. So now that we are at our hostel (yes our hostel, no breakfast cooked for us tomorrow), we are deciding to maybe stayin Glasgow another night because we havent got the feel for ...

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 ...

Hello!

I thought I should test out this site before I head off into the unknown, well actually only London to begin with!

However, my adventure begins properly on Thursday when I embark on an 11 hour flight to San Francisco.

As for now I'm pretty much packed, although having drank two glasses of celebratory Cava (despite swearing off alcohol forever after my leaving do on ...

... are pretty awful, full of pot holes that could take the whole car out I think. I met a Canadian size logging truck on such a road, and luckily saw him well ahead so squeezed myself into a hedge. What are they doing on these farm roads I ask you? Ben Lomond had a lovely top of fresh snow. So did the other "bens" in the neighbourhood. I still love to see snow on hills, even though we get lots of that at home.

... Hotel where the service was wonderful and I had my own little room. After moving in, we walked down to the football oval to see Selkirk verse Edinburgh Academicals. Selkirk just got beaten. Dad bought me a Selkirk rugby jumper and Jim signed it for me as Basher Inglis as that was his nickname! Later on in the trip, we visited Hadrians wall and forts built by the Romans where this little ...

... went out for a drink at King Tut's something or other... its a kewl little pub that has nightly live music... i didn't stick around for the tunes, it was a pretty steep cover charge... but hell, i was reading about all the bands that are playing there this month and they get some pretty international bands to play there... i was really impressed for such a little venue... off to Cardiff i go today!

... dth you net thear wath my fliend sthled to you" I said, "Look I don't want to fight OK so lets all just walk away" well with that they tore my jacket in half and proceeded to push me around, strangely I was really calm and all I could think about was, "these ***** better not steal my Oiler hat!" so in the face of this I kept touching my head to see if I still had it on my head. They weren't letting up and poor Rachel didn't know what to do, since she had no experience ...

... for! As do I hope the same for all the family and to diane and ross for meeting me for lunch today, it did mean a lot. I will miss you all a hell of a lot. This wasn't meant to be a trip I went on my own and no amount of doggy bags, 30 degrees, or hot americans in bikinis will fill in for the big seshers presence. Hopefully we'll get to do the OC next year :p, if its still on. If you asked me my aim for the end of the holiday, just now it would honestly be to come back ...