We got our steps in today, again!

Not to be stopped by the unpredictable weather, we walked….a lot… again today! My feet are going to thank me when we finally leave Edinburgh with a car! So many cool things to see in this city. WeEn savoir plus
Not to be stopped by the unpredictable weather, we walked….a lot… again today! My feet are going to thank me when we finally leave Edinburgh with a car! So many cool things to see in this city. WeEn savoir plus
We have left Edinburgh and rented ourselves a car! A nice car! (we basically had no choice). Rentals were ridiculously priced and very low inventory. We will just have to grin and bear it! 😆😉En savoir plus
Stirling Castle has records as far back as 1110 and is one of the largest and most historically important castles in Scotland! (So much history in-fact that I will not be going into detail 😆). ItEn savoir plus
More Stirling Castle pictures! Just too good!! 😆
Leaving Stirling today, we headed south a bit to see the “Kelpies”. The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads that stand about 98ft high. They are relatively new sculptures, but areEn savoir plus
We have named our GPS system Kate. She can be quite insistent with her British accented directions and sometimes is quite wrong! Like today when she basically instructed us to take a right … downEn savoir plus
We managed a sort of self-guided tour thru part of Inverness this afternoon. We saw the oldest house still standing in Inverness and Leakey’s Bookshop, which was a highlight for me. It’sEn savoir plus
We had a really nice gal (Coral), in a shop in Inverness, recommend a nearby tour to meet some highland cows! That’s been a goal of mine since… before Scotland! 😆 It also just happened to beEn savoir plus
The drive from Loch Ness to the coast was in many ways epic and in some ways familiar! The Highlands are somewhat barren hills and mountains covered in dark (dormant) heather. Some are dusted on topEn savoir plus
Our last stop of the day before arriving at our B&B for the next two nights is the Castle Eilean Donan. This little island's original castle was built in the thirteenth century and was a stronghold ofEn savoir plus
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So pretty! 😍
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Oh my gosh! I love it! ♥️
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Is that blue in the ceiling original, or part of a restoration? Kind of an unusual color in a historical church.