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Jock's first drink
Blackie here.
We arrive at Edinburgh airport and catch a cab to the bus station. We cart the bags into the station and I ask this official looking bloke where can we catch a bus to St Andrews and he looks at me like I've a couple of heads and says, "What a did ya say laddie?" So I repeat it to him sloooowly and he tells me Stand No5. What ever …
Goodbye hand luggage, hello excess luggage
I have finally given up on the idea of taking my 'specially purchased from the US, carryon sized bag' onto the plane with me. Mark hasn’t done it at all. It began to seem pointless when we’d have to firstly wait for his bag, and then go to over-sized cargo to collect his golf clubs after we arrived anywhere. I was determined to keep my …
Blackie’s Scottish golf odyssey
Blacklie here
Scotland……Day 1
We arrive at Edinburgh airport and catch a cab to the bus station. We cart the bags into the station and I ask this official looking bloke where can we catch a bus to St Andrews and he looks at me like I've a couple of heads and says, "What did ya say laddie?” So I repeat it to …
From St. Andrew's to Loch Ness!
... picture to show you. Sorry! Just trust that it was pretty. The low lands of Scotland has beautiful plush fields filled with a bunch of naked sheep. (It's summer so they've all been sheered.) Our next stop was the Hermitage, also know as Birnham Woods from Shakespeare's Macbeth. This was an amazing wooded walk which lead us to this circular little hut. We went inside and it was a plain white room with a big picture of Ossion (a Celtic ...
St Andrews...
... and more especially the company.
The show was to die for. WOW....Cant remember the last time I went to a live show and enjoyed it so much. We all did, even Rob who wasn't even a twinkle when all this music was created .
The musos were first class and the entertainment outstanding. For the last half hour everyone in the audience was on their feet.
Declined the offer of a wee dram before bed and ...