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Brilliant_Rock
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Hello to everyone! My DH and I just got back last weekend from our trip to Scotland. We had a lovely time, and I really miss it. It was so beautiful there!
I wanted to thank everyone who helped us plan our trip, Jennifer W, Movie Zombie, JewelFreak, Rainwood, Jazzoboe and PartGypsy. All of you gave such good advice and wonderful recommendations.
I have tons of pictures, just none at work so I can't post any right now. But we really packed a lot into 5 short days!
We landed at 8AM in Edinburgh Monday morning and got our rental car and proceeded through Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Glen Coe (where we had to stop at a scenic overlook and sleep for an hour, becuase we did not sleep at all on the plane
), Fort Williams where we found our way into Glen Nevis and hiked to the Steall Falls (and we did the wire bridge!), and then finally, on to the Isle of Skye. We didn't get to our B&B until 830PM and we had been up for about 38 hours at that point.
The following day we hiked the Old Man of Storr, then drove around Skye visiting the Fairy Glen, the Coral Beach at Claigan, and Neist Point. One of the highlights of our trip was getting stuck in a herd of sheep on the Old Man of Storr as well as in our car at Neist Point. Those sheep on the mountain were pretty disgruntled, and those sheep dogs are no joke! They know how to get their job done!
We left Skye on Wednesday and took the ferry. Stopped at Traigh Beach and the Glenfinnan Viaduct to snap some photos, then pressed on to the Spean Bridge Woolen Mills. Drove through to Stirling again and then to Edinburgh, where we arrived again around 8PM.
Thursday we crossed over to England to visit the Alnwick Castle, which I'm glad we did because it was really nice to see all the history, and pretty neat that the family lives there. Unfortunately is was pretty nasty weather, but that didn't slow us down. We had lunch at a really great little cafe, then returned to Edinburgh and walked around the city for a while.
Friday we spent in Edinburgh, visited the Edinburgh Castle which we liked a lot as well. Walked around for at least 10 miles that day. Enjoyed a nice peaceful hour sipping tea and espresso in Costa, then decided to be double decker tourists.
Needless to say, we were pretty shattered at the end of our trip. We did so much in such a short amount of time, but we had so much fun. Scotland is so beautiful! When we return, it will definitely be to the highlands and Skye. We loved that area and really enjoyed hiking and seeing the land. We are not huge on cities, so Edinburgh while fun, was definitely not where we would want to spend a lot of time. For those of you that live in Scotland, you are very fortunate to be surrounded by so much beauty. And highland cows .
Thanks again to those that helped us out!
I wanted to thank everyone who helped us plan our trip, Jennifer W, Movie Zombie, JewelFreak, Rainwood, Jazzoboe and PartGypsy. All of you gave such good advice and wonderful recommendations.
I have tons of pictures, just none at work so I can't post any right now. But we really packed a lot into 5 short days!
We landed at 8AM in Edinburgh Monday morning and got our rental car and proceeded through Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Glen Coe (where we had to stop at a scenic overlook and sleep for an hour, becuase we did not sleep at all on the plane
), Fort Williams where we found our way into Glen Nevis and hiked to the Steall Falls (and we did the wire bridge!), and then finally, on to the Isle of Skye. We didn't get to our B&B until 830PM and we had been up for about 38 hours at that point. The following day we hiked the Old Man of Storr, then drove around Skye visiting the Fairy Glen, the Coral Beach at Claigan, and Neist Point. One of the highlights of our trip was getting stuck in a herd of sheep on the Old Man of Storr as well as in our car at Neist Point. Those sheep on the mountain were pretty disgruntled, and those sheep dogs are no joke! They know how to get their job done!
We left Skye on Wednesday and took the ferry. Stopped at Traigh Beach and the Glenfinnan Viaduct to snap some photos, then pressed on to the Spean Bridge Woolen Mills. Drove through to Stirling again and then to Edinburgh, where we arrived again around 8PM.
Thursday we crossed over to England to visit the Alnwick Castle, which I'm glad we did because it was really nice to see all the history, and pretty neat that the family lives there. Unfortunately is was pretty nasty weather, but that didn't slow us down. We had lunch at a really great little cafe, then returned to Edinburgh and walked around the city for a while.
Friday we spent in Edinburgh, visited the Edinburgh Castle which we liked a lot as well. Walked around for at least 10 miles that day. Enjoyed a nice peaceful hour sipping tea and espresso in Costa, then decided to be double decker tourists.
Needless to say, we were pretty shattered at the end of our trip. We did so much in such a short amount of time, but we had so much fun. Scotland is so beautiful! When we return, it will definitely be to the highlands and Skye. We loved that area and really enjoyed hiking and seeing the land. We are not huge on cities, so Edinburgh while fun, was definitely not where we would want to spend a lot of time. For those of you that live in Scotland, you are very fortunate to be surrounded by so much beauty. And highland cows
.Thanks again to those that helped us out!
But we had a good stay there. Although I'm not quite sure how it has a four star rating, it was a great central location and I really can't complain.
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