The Spinnaker Hotel
Travel Blogs from Gourock
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
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... eyebrows which took up three quarters of her forehead informed me I was in the wrong seat! Which was a shame because I seemed surrounded by decent, chatty folks especially the bloke JIm sitting nesxt to me. Fortunately, the lady whose seat it was kindly offered it to me which I was immensely relieved about when I spied a particularly leery looking gent next to her looking disappointedly in my direction!
It transpired Jim was from Prestwick and ...
Braveheart's Monument, Stirling Castle, and ...
... sword. Quite a spectacle. We briefly circled Stirling Castle but opted not to touristorize it since we will be doing the same to Edinburgh Castle tomorrow. Finally, we arrived at our fun night accommodation of our Scotland Visit, Castle Levan. An actual 14th century castle with turrets, arrow slits and our very own 4 poster bed. ...
Mayday!
... in from the pastures. I’ve been amazed at the range covered by grazing sheep – take a look at the photo where the sheep are so far away and scattered, you might mistake them for an artifact of dust bits on my camera lens. So I asked how they manage to collect them – dogs, is the answer! They can use four-wheel off-road vehicles sometimes, but in some areas the hills are just too steep and they rely on dogs to bring in the ...