Port Charlotte Hotel

My brief trip to the west coast was highly spontaneous - I thought I was only going to Glasgow, but instead my friend Adam picked me up and took me out into the country. We went past the largest wind farm in Europe (apparently!) on the way to Troon... and yeah, it was pretty impressive (my photos for this entry are rubbish and don't represent that at all - sorry). Then he drove past a whole ...

... Calafate

Details: Arrive in Calafate late afternoon. Evening.

Date: 12/01/2010

Location: El Calafate

Details: Visit Los Glaciares National Park

Date: 13/01/2010

Location: El Calafate

Details: Get the bus to El Chalten (£20) to visit Fitz Roy Range. Visit the park and do a day trek. Spend the night in El Chalten

Date: 14/01/2010

Mullavilly, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom conorandalicia

There is not a lot to say about the wedding,except we all had a fantastic time! I will let the photo's speak for themselves. It was great. The food was very very nice, and the company was brill. Sophie looked fabulous as so did the bridesmaids. Enjoy the pic's we had a great time.xx

... it was brillant, the young lady who was our guide was full of information and very funny. We weren't going to stay on the whole way around to begin with but then changed our mind when we started listening to her..

We found Amy's grandfathers bridge and took some photos.. still very cold by this stage but decided to do some shopping.. I didn't realise it was such good shopping in Glasgow my memories of this city in 2000 was a very ...

An interesting castle ruin. The main castle is on a rock. Part of the old kitchen fell into the sea. They built another block of buildings on the main land.

Afterwards, I climbed down to the base and saw the natural cave underneath the castle.

... is to sign up with the distilleries beforehand. Joining up with Classic Malts (www.malts.com) gives you free entry (normally £5 or so), and with Laphroiag (http://www.laphroaig.com) they give you 1 foot square of land, plus your rent (a miniature cask strength whiskey)

Robert seemed to really enjoy the new scenery, but was a little unsettled at night as all the travelling was breaking up his routine.

For eating out ...

Next day, we were back on the west coast at Oban, and from there drove to the ferry at Tarbert and crossed over to Islay (pronounced Isle – luh), home of Laphroaig Distillery, among others. Laphroaig is Bill’s favorite Scotch, or at least the first real single malt he ever tried, so he has a soft spot for it. I think it tastes like liquid peatmoss. He also belongs to the Friends of Laphroaig, and so is entitled to a free dram of Scotch annually ...

... at Giant's Causeway which is an eye-popping, surreal locale. The geology is almost unreal and we found it somewhat frustrating that more information wasn't available to describe the details of how such a natural phenomenon as this was created. From what little we were able to distill from the bookstore, millions of years ago a volcanic eruption occurred that caused a great deal of lava to spill into a river ...

... et Irlande du Nord, sous couvert du Scottish National Trust. Parmis ces réserves, l'île d'Islay possède une situation particulière : c'est le seul pays (et en particulier cette île) d'Europe où une espèce, le Râle des genêts, est en population croissante (80 couples en moyenne actuellement, 1145 mâles chanteurs en Ecosse). La France ayant stabilisé une ...

... the meals are great! lots of yummy yummy homemade food and always the best puddings, tonight was chocolate pecan pie... mmm... tonight we got awards for being volunteers.... i got the 'queen of fun games' award for my mini golf, speed scrabble and party games...! that was fun... im glad im finally queen of something. rod got a practical joker one...mmmm. well i think id better get to bed because im doing aerobics again at 7.30am!!!