Tripping, Part 2: On to Scotland

We did survive the KFC ordeal and woke up Monday morning ready to head to Scotland. We made a quick stop before we got to the border in the resort town of Winemere in order to see the famous (or not) ....

It was all booked up so we couldn't see inside but talked to the owners. The town was really interesting and picturesque. This house was about the narrowest house I've ever seen.

This big, beautiful building turned out to be some kind of church

- although it didn't look very churchy. It was fairly a typical look for the area.

There were all kinds of nice spots that worked great for photo shoots but

since they are mostly all of Alyna, this is the only one I will post.

While there we stayed in a nice little cottage on a farm near Loch Lommond. After the noise and business of London, it was a welcome change.

There were lots of sheep, which is probably why Scotland is famous for it's wool. It was very cool (as in damp and chilly) while we were there so we made a stop fairly early in our travels to buy some warm sweaters.

We spent 3 days seeing as many things as we could in Scotland.

Sunset on Loch Lommond. (About 10 PM)

Dennis and Jessica walked into an old castle ruins.

We hiked up to Bracklinn Falls, okay it was more of a walk, but there was a hill.

Then on to Stirling Castle, one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland. One of the historic events that occurred here was the crowning of Mary, Queen of Scots.

We drove over to see the Miekleour Beech Hedge which was planted in 1745 and is the world's tallest, averaging over 100 ft. tall and is 580 ft. long.

"The Queen's View" over Loch Tay. It wasn't a great time of day to try to take pictures of it but it was very picturesque.

Jessica has really liked old stone bridges lately

and we saw many interesting ones throughout our travels.

We went to tour the Duke and Duchess of Argyle's home. It was very interesting because they actually live in the home but let tours go through the more formal half of the house while they and their three young children live in the other half. Of course, for most of us, living in half of this house wouldn't be that great of a hardship.

In my next blog, we will board the ferry and head over to Northern Ireland.