Polmaily House Hotel Drumnadrochit

... ski resort... and this was the A93, the highest public road in the UK... closed to snow for much of the winter... unsurprising!<br><br> <br><br> <br><br>Beautiful, beautiful drive. It took hours and hours but I didn't care... I need to find more excuses to go to the Highlands :P

... of the afternoon was spent driving around the island looking at the fanstastic scenery, including the kilt cliffs, which are related to the giants causeway back in Ireland - evidently there are two sides to every story - the Scottish side involves the Irish giant running away (of course!) in fear, due to the enormous size of the kilt that the Scottish giant had flung over the rocks. <br><br>Then to the Sligachan area - a rather impressive mountain lives there, on which there is a ...

... It's about 24 miles end to end and about 1/5 miles from side to side. Despite our best Aussie haka, Nessie didn't come out to visit. <br> Further along the Loch to where we are staying tonight AND tomorrow night - two nights in one place, how amazing! We're in a 4 bed room with our own ensuite - our room for those playing along at home? Braveheart of course! We're heading off soon to a Highland History performance, then back to the hostel for some ...

... br>Some other info Ross gave us.<br><br>- Scotish flag is based on a vision that St Andrew had while fighting the British a white cross shining against a blue sky.<br>- golf is actually illegal in Scotland, William the IV declared it illegal as it stopped the young men practising their archery, the law has never been changed.. lol<br><br>Back in Edinburgh, food and sleep,early start in the morning!!!!! oh no..

... worthwhile (and hopefully worth the money, i'll see when I work out how much I've spent). I obviously won't be uploading the 4000 photo's I took but anyone is welcome to see them, they need only ask; and set aside around 5 hrs to go through them. This is Mike's log.......signing out.

... a visit to the battlefield of Culloden 5 miles east of Inverness. This is where the differences between the Scots and the English were sorted out by war for the last time in 1746. The history of the relationship between the Scots and the English is a very troubled one which I will try to cover later in the blog <br><br>The tensions building to the battle had been brewing for a long time. It was the Scottish Stuart King James VI who ...

... Because, ********, where else are you going to get a soggy sandwich and a cup of tea?). Although, I have to be honest, at a train station I never find myself looking at the board thinking &#8220;Wow, Tbilisi,why on earth would someone go there?&#8221; and getting jealous. I know why people are going to Leeds. They&#8217;re going to visit Aunt Doris in hospital, where she&#8217;s lying in excruciating pain dying of acute haemorrhoids. Or something like that.<br><br>The boards weren ...

... sun was setting we drove around a corner and there standing majestically in a clearing was a Scottish tower castle built in 1460, our home for the next couple of nights. The bloke that was running the castle thought that we weren't arriving that night that we had just got lost somewhere so it took us about 30min before we could get inside. But one we were in we dumped our gear and headed for the games room for a couple rounds of pool before hitting the bed some 2 ...

... Drumnadrochit (another two miles of walking - just NOT officially along the Great Glen Way) and had some tea and a scone at a cafe. After that I went to the Loch Ness Monster Exhibition Centre - who could resist?!? Certainly not I! After taking in the exhibition, I am convinced that the "monster" never existed, but it remains an intriguing yarn to tell the kiddies. The only purchase I made in the colossal Nessie gift shop was two bottles of ...

... a great experience for me and I hope I get to follow Argi more in his future excursions like these, where I can just walk while he runs. I could see the glow on his face after his run, expressing his happiness and satisfaction of being able to do just that. And that look alone gave me tremendous happiness in return, to know that my man needs to do only that to be so happy!! I felt so blessed that he is so easy to please...