Skye
1 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
The weather was up to its usual tricks, starting off with hope then pouring for at least half of our day out.
Skye's scenery is beautiful.
While the weather held we took a detour to the fairy pools.
Whiskey and Fairies
1 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
When in Scotland and you need to keep dry....go whiskey tasting.
After a stop off at Port reef, the main town, it was off to Uig to see The Fairy Glen. According to Scottish folklore fairies liveЧитать далее
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Now we're getting somewhere, the golden drop!! I can Smell the peat from Here.
ПутешественникMe thinks u may see fairies after a few too many 🤣 beautiful countryside 💕
The Ridge
1 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Visited Cuith - Raing part of the Trotternish Ridge. Spectacular but blowing a gale.
Before leaving Skye we celebrated our day with a group dinner of pizzas .
Goodbye friends
2 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
🎵 sunshine on my. shoulders ....🎵 really summed up today.
It's a sad day as we're saying goodbye to our tour friends this afternoon and swapping to new group.
Before that happens there's thingsЧитать далее
Inverness
2–8 сент. 2025, Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
After farewelling our tour group we joined another group to head north . Barb and Ben swapped with us.
Back to Fort Augustus before driving along Loch Ness to Inverness. We stopped at Falls of Foyer .Читать далее
The Orkneys
3 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
An early morning start as its a 3hr drive to the ferry which takes us over to the Orkneys.
A few quick stops on the way to stretch our legs.
The main stop was a walk to see Dunrobin Castle, home toЧитать далее
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That's when he built the castle after he "dun robin" the locals😞🤣🤣
Ullapool
4 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Another stunning morning has dawned. Said goodbye to the Orkneys. But before we leave, a little more history, the Italian Church.
The Church was created by the Italian prisoners of war in 1943 toЧитать далее
Skara Brae
4 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
On the walking path to Skara Brae, there're stones showing what's happened in the world since skara Brae was built starting with man on the moon, 1969 and going backwards.; The fall of Rome 476 AD,Читать далее
Scapa beach
4 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Today dawned beautifully sunny which was perfect as it was an outdoor day.
We started off by visiting Scapa beach, no waves today. A black guillemot possibly with avian flu was resting on the water'sЧитать далее
ПутешественникYay beautiful blue skies glad you’ve got some good weather 😁
Ring of Brodgar
4 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
There are only 26 of the 60 standing stones left. They form a circle surrounded by a hedge ( ditch) . Each stone is exactly 6 ° apart. It dates back to between 2600 -2000 BC
On to the Stones ofЧитать далее
The Picts
4–10 сент. 2025, Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Stopped at Birsay to see the Earl's Palace, 1574. Built by Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney.
St Magnus Church is where Magnus was buried before being moved to Kirkwall Cathederal.
Off to the Broch ofЧитать далее
Corrieshalloch Gorge
6–8 сент. 2025, Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Last day of our Rabbies tour .
Stopped at Corrieshalloch Gorge. This area is being rewilded with native species. Such a beautiful place.
Culloden
6 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Gordon was very happy to finally make it to Culloden.
Walked around the battlefield and found the cains of his clan, the Campbells of Argyl and the McPherson. The Campbells fought for the BritishЧитать далее
Royal Britannia
7 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
To celebrate fathers day we decided to have morning tea on the Royal Yatch Britannia. You get an audio guide which tells you about life on board while you walk around the yatch.
ПутешественникGreat way to spend Father’s Day I think u were rightly spoilt
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You were supposed to put the admirals cap on for the photo.
Bobby
7 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
We just had to visit the famous Bobby and rub his nose for good luck. 1858 Bobby's owner , John Gray died and was buried in Greyfriars kirkyard. Bobby out lived Gray by 14 years and spent that time byЧитать далее
The Castle
8 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
St Margrets Chapel is the oldest building in Edinburgh.
Saw the Scotish Crown Jewels in the Royal Palace.
There's lovely little a dog Cemetery for the mascots and working dogs
Just outside the CastleЧитать далее
On the road.
9 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Today we collected our car and headed out of Edinburgh.
Stopped at the Kelpies. Magnificent work of art standing 30m high. They acknowledge the horses that were used as transport along the waterways.Читать далее
Fairy Bridge.
10 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
We were planning to see Inverrary Castle today but of course it was closed.
Onto plan B, visit the Fairy Bridge of Glen Creran. After a 3km walk through beautiful moss covered trees to the stone fairyЧитать далее
ПутешественникThat bridge is lovely but those spikes at the edges look a bit lethal. Gorgeous countryside 💕
Newtonmore
11 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌬 10 °C
Newtonmore is supposedly the geographical centre of Scotland and home to the Clan MacPherson museum. As Gordon is a MacPherson he was very excited to visit and see his relative Christina on theЧитать далее
Last day
12 сентября 2025 г., Шотландия ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Today is our last day in Scotland. It's sad to leave, we've really loved it but more adventures await us.
Anyway we filled our day travelling the back roads for most of it.
Stopped in La for a goodЧитать далее
Hello Amsterdam
13 сентября 2025 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Goodbye Scotland, hello Amsterdam 👋.
After a fuss free effort to get to Edinburgh airport , getting to our accommodation in Amsterdam was a different story.
We decided to go by train as taxi easЧитать далее
ПутешественникThe joys of travel! Sometimes it all goes to plan, sometimes it doesn’t.
Around town
14 сентября 2025 г., Нидерланды ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
No getting lost today.
Started with a walk to the Ann Frank House. An amazing ,sad, sombre experience. So much information to listen to and see.
After that time for something lighter like DutchЧитать далее
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Don't fancy cleaning the bird poo off after that visitor 😳
ПутешественникDid you do the ‘Lovely’ canal boats? They were there in 1992!! And watch out for planes falling out of the sky - one crashed into building just as we arrived. Scary 🛩️
ПутешественникOmg they all stayed up thank goodness. We did "flag ship" canal boats. It was lovely
ПутешественникWe loved walking around Amsterdam when we were there in 2019
The quirky
15 сентября 2025 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
In the Jewish area they have names in the footpath showing where people who were killed lived.
Путешественник😂 maybe you should plant a lemon tree .I hear they love some pee
Exploring
15 сентября 2025 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
Today was a definite bad hair day today. The wind was gale force with a few sessions of rain.
Not that it stopped us doing a walking tour. The tour was fantastic. Our leader was so informative. HeЧитать далее
ПутешественникAmsterdam looks great, we have had one brief visit and look forward to spending more time there. Interesting about the red light district being moved.
Indoor day
16 сентября 2025 г., Нидерланды ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Todays weather was definitely worse than yesterday. Rain rain rain wind wind wind.
Plan A go out of town ❌️
Plan B Van Gough Museum ❌️ booked out
Plan C Stedelijk museum ✅️. So much betterЧитать далее
ПутешественникWow some stunning pics here cheryl